Quiet Places of the Heart

Hope, Growth, Change and Loss.These are the seasons of faith, each presenting a special challenge and opportunity for experiencing God's grace, exemplified here through prayers, reflections and vignettes of life. There are moments, sometimes fleeting, sometimes lingering, when elevated thoughts and wonders of the heart lift us beyond ourselves to a transfiguring mountain of the soul's bright day and life is as it has never been. And then! There are moments, sometimes fleeting, sometimes lingering, when great loss [of a person, of a dream, only the reader knows for sure] sinks us into a tremoring valley of the soul's dark night and life is as it has never been. And then, what?