Margaret Silf travels widely in her work as a retreat director and speaker on Ignatian spirituality. Her books include Compass Points, Inner Compass, Close to the Heart and Going on Retreat. She lives in Scotland.
Contents
Introduction?xv North: Origins?1
1 The Baobab Tree?3
2 Weathered into Glory?5
3 Foundations?7
4 Shifting Sands?10
5 Moments of Truth?12
6 Grounded?14
7 Grandchild?15
8 Awakening?16
9 Rock Talk?17
10 Sauntering?18
11 The Anthill?20
12 Starlight Dreaming?22
13 Same River, Fresh Water?24
14 My African Great-Grandmother?25
Northeast: Finding God in All Things?27
15 Jam Tomorrow?29
16 Accidental Epiphanies?31
17 The Restaurant Bird?34
18 Nothing but the Truth?36
19 A Child's First Snowflake?38
20 Stories in Stones?39
21 Hadeda?40
22 Local Connections?41
23 Eucharist?42
24 Evening Primrose?44
25 Knowing, Understanding, Forgiving?45
26 Teen Static?47
27 The Love of a Child?49
28 Bricks and Bubbles?51
29 Stripes?53
East: Probing the Darkness?55
30 Prayer Planting?57
31 Broken Shell?59
32 Empire State?61
33 The Cost of Unhealthy Dependence?63
34 Candles of Mass Destruction?65
35 A Thin, Thin Line?66
36 Adapted to Crookedness??67
37 Rules?68
38 For Sale: First Place in Line?69
39 Focusing the Light?71
40 The Freedom Cage?72
41 The New Suit?73
42 Progress, Written Backward?75
43 Solitary Confinement?77
Southeast: Following the Dream?79
44 Dream Signs?81
45 Coal into Diamonds?83
46 Excess Baggage?86
47 GPS Device or Compass??88
48 Wandering Roots 89
49 The Shot I Never Got?90
50 Detours?91
51 New Apostles?92
52 Beyond Possibility?93
53 One Step at a Time?94
54 Apostolic Succession?95
55 The Ninety-Nine Acre Field?96
56 The Dancing Leaf?98
57 Keeping Going?101
58 Following?103
South: Choosing Life?105
59 Big Visions and Daily Details?107
60 Portable Weather?109
61 The Great Divide?111
62 Responding to the Stranger?114
63 Unexpected Moments of Independent Thought?115
64 The Enemy Within?116
65 Diamonds and Dewdrops?117
66 Don't Melt the Angel?118
67 Event Horizons?119
68 The Importance of Not Being Necessary?120
69 The Ocean of Memory?121
70 The Special Race?123
71 The Peace Vote?125
72 The Funny Scales?126
73 Breaking Free?128
Southwest: Breaking Down?129
74 In Sickness and in Health?131
75 When the Barriers Are Down?133
76 Disarming Power?134
77 A Stopped Clock?135
78 Tunnel Vision?136
79 Power Failure?137
80 Gravity Revisited?139
81 The Gift of Deficiency?140
82 Partners for Life?141
83 Vacant Possession?142
84 Bees among the Clover?145
85 A Course in Midwifery?147
86 Desolation?149
87 Seeds of the Storm?152
88 Dying to Live?153
89 Soul Soil?156
West: Breaking Through?157
90 Expelled from Eden??159
91 Blessed Forgetting?161
92 Emptying, Full-Filling? 162
93 Stony Ground?163
94 Sacred Scars?164
95 Wounded Blessings?167
96 Touching the Tears?168
97 Lightning Strike?171
98 Hatched??172
99 Sunken Treasure?173
100 Spending Power?174
101 Onions or Daffodils?175
102 Theological Exchange?177
103 The Cholera Fountain?178
104 Creative Fire?180
Northwest: Loving with God's Love?181
105 Miss Woodland?182
106 A Father's Love?184
107 Searching Questions?186
108 Real Estate?187
109 Queen of the World?189
110 Thursday Prayer?190
111 Wee Billy Wilkie?191
112 No Room at the Inn?192
113 Wild Child?193
114 Transformed by Trust?195
115 Rule Breaker?196
116 Unlikely Friendships?198
117 If We'd Known It Was You . . .?199
118 The Cost of Little Things?201
119 Apple Peel?202
120 The Glass Harp?204
North: Destiny?205
121 Memory Keeping?207
122 Will Tomorrow Ever Come??209
123 Wisdom's Signature?211
124 The Sound of Silence?212
125 Yesterday's Chestnut, Tomorrow's Tree?213
126 The Other Side of Sorrow?214
127 Who Were We??215
128 Einstein for Beginners?217
129 Where Two Roses Meet?218
130 Lamplight, Sunlight?219
131 Growing Up?221
132 The Lilac Tree?222
133 Stepping Stones?224
134 Reef Encounter?226
135 Traveling Light?228
136 Homecoming?229
137 Closing Down, Opening Up?232 Acknowledgments?233
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