Providing wisdom and comfort to Christians in doubt and crisis, here is "Virtue" magazine's 1991 Book of the Year, now in paperback. Combining her painful mid-life experience with classic Christian teachings, Kidd offers an inspirational autobiographical account of spiritual awakening and divine grace.

From the bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bees, an inspiring autobiographical account of personal pain, spiritual awakening, and divine grace.

Blending her own experience with an intimate grasp of spirituality, Sue Monk Kidd relates the passionate and moving tale of her spiritual crisis, when life seemed to have lost meaning and her longing for a hasty escape from the pain yielded to a discipline of "active waiting." Full of wisdom, poise, and grace, Kidd's words will encourage us along our spiritual journey, toward becoming who we truly are.