Spiritual and autobiographical reflections on the author's seminary days, early ministry, and writing career.Graceful in story and insights.Candid... wistful...breathtaking images.Strikes to the heart&Unpreachy meditations on life and Christianity at its most profound.Buechner writes better than almost anyone. This book and its companion, The Sacred Journey, reduce and clarify the who and what and why of his whole life to something not unlike the palm-sized egg of crystal. Deep within it, as we read, the sun shines and the constellations rove.Buechner is a worthy member of the great prose stylists: Pascal, Newman, and Merton, who have harnessed their art to a passionate religious faith.