Ginger says: This is the book that made my faith my own. Buechner was a Christian minister, but unlike any spiritual thinker I’ve ever come across. His novels and memoirs and sermons are irreverent reverence. They’re fresh and literary. This slim essay made me “listen to my life” for the echoes of the gospel that are as large in theme as any tragedy, comedy, or fairy tale I’d ever read… and then some.

From the publisher: "Daily meditations taken from the works of an acclaimed novelist, essayist, and preacher who has articulated what he sees with a freshness and clarity and energy that hails our stultified imaginations."

From the publisher: "Awry and thought-provoking jaunt through the spiritual terrain of our everyday language -- a lexion of uncommon insight to jar the mind and nourish the soul. 'I think of faith as a kind of whistling in the dark, because in much the same way,' writes Buechner, 'it helps to give us courage and to hold the shadows at bay.'"