num_pages: 224
description: As Lauren Winner says Maybe its not right to think of feasting during the somewhat penitential season of Advent but that is what this book a sumptuous feast. In keeping with At the Still A Literary Guide to Prayer in Ordinary Time (a thing of beauty and a literary treasure trove and devotional feast two reviewers called it) this collection contains daily and weekly inspirational readings to help the reader prayerfully experience God through the liturgical seasons of winter. Well-loved classics by Andersen Dickens and Eliot join contemporary works by Frederick Buechner and Gary Schmidt. Poems by Donne Herbert and Rossetti are paired with newer Scott Cairns Benjamn Alire Senz Susanna Childress and Amit Majmudar. Readers are invited to experience Advent Christmas and Epiphany in its raw strangeness stripped of sentiment and to turn toward Emmanuel.
language: English
title: Light Upon Light: A Literary Guide to Prayer for Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany
publisher: Paraclete Press