Listening Against the Stone: Meditations
Beautifully observed and rendered, one by one and taken together, Brenda Miller's essays delight, transport, inspire, connect us to the world, and then back to ourselves. This is one of those books you read through in one sitting, then keep close at hand, sustenance for the head and the heart.--Dinah Lenney, author ofBigger than LifeInListening Against the Stone,Brenda Miller offers a captivating account of one woman's evolving and eclectic spiritual path.  The gift here is that she invites us along, offering a set of stunningly-beautiful essays and a voice like none other: sweet, joyful, wise, heart-breaking, and always honest and true.        --Dinty W. MooreBrenda Miller is a modern contemplative, weaving the essential longings of the heart into ordinary, very human struggles.  With lyricism and grace, Miller demonstrates for us what Rilke meant by "living the questions."--Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew, author ofHome, Hardwood, and HolinessHer twenty-three carefully curated, yet never contrived essays make up a  stunning mosaic, pieced together not perfectly, but as an intricately compassionate offering: each tiny, loving, and whole piece is a crucial part of the bigger puzzle.                             --Lisa Romeo,Foreword Reviews