The Sewing Room and Other Essays: Uncommon Reflections on Life, Love, and Work

A wise, humane, and marvelously worldly collection of essays by a dynamic woman priest, The Sewing Room addresses the human condition with plain-spoken eloquence and bracing moral common sense, covering such everyday concerns as the extremities of life in homeless shelters and AIDS clinics.

Crafton, Barbara Cawthorne

Biographies & Memoirs

Penguin??Books

Daily essays that will help restore balance and bring perspective to every woman's life, written by a wife, mother, and young grandmother . . . who is also an Episcopal priest. For women whose lives are spread too thin, these meditations can be a comforting and transforming experience, awakening us to the miraculous richness of our days and the true value of our achievements.

Finding Time for Serenity

Religion & Spirituality

New Age & Spirituality

Ballantine Books

There is nothing--and I mean nothing--on earth from which we cannot grow in wisdom and compassion. Whether or not we choose to do it is not up to God. It is up to us. . . . Through the ages, the beautiful Book of Psalms has spoken with unfailing wisdom to lost and troubled souls. It still does today. The Psalms are the inspiration for Barbara Crafton's lovely meditations on what, at the end of the twentieth century, remain mankind's deepest concerns: questions of faith, the spirits, and the relationships between our individual selves and the source of life. Are my beliefs based upon eternal values or merely upon custom? Am I willing to learn and grow from the good and bad that fall to my lot? Can I rejoice in my friends' good fortune? Have I the courage to do what's right? Love, separation, work, rest, defeat, victory, beginnings and endings--Barbara Crafton looks life in the eye and calls it as she sees it, showing us the sacred from a perspective that loves the world and takes it seriously. The tough, warm-hearted, and beautifully written meditations of this Episcopal priest are a gift that soothes our human pain and nourishes our deepest hungers.

Meditations on the Book of Psalms

Worship & Devotion

A mother, grandmother, and ordained Episcopal priest reflects on the human condition in anecdotes about sewing machines and the passage of time; about her father's second marriage; about the extremities of life; and about everyday conflicts. 12,500 first printing. $10,000 ad/promo.

VIKING

The author, one of the first women ordained an Episcopal priest, shares her observations on time, her father's second marriage, homeless shelters, AIDS clinics, and the challenges of everyday life

The Sewing Room (G K Hall Large Print Book Series)

Literature & Fiction

G.K.Hall & Co.

In these insightful essays, Barbara Cawthorne Crafton reflects on a broad range of experiences ministering among merchant seafarers, the homeless, the bereaved, AIDS patients, and others in need of personal and spiritual help. She shares honestly her own emotions as she grapples with the harsh realities of the world, while delighting in the humor and joy found in everyday living. Crafton compassionately recounts the unique stories of the men, women, and children she worked with during her service as a port chaplain in New York and New Jersey and as a minister at Trinity Church on Wall Street. In doing so, she weaves together threads of the mundane and the traumatic, the lovely and the ugly, and the down to earth and the holy, creating an original tapestry of the richness of life.

The Sewing Room: Uncommon Reflections on Life, Love and Work

Community & Culture

Morehouse Publishing

Based on beautiful seasonal hymns, Crafton's daily meditations on faith, prayer, forgiveness, and healing for Advent and Christmas make an excellent companion for the season. For centuries the words and poetry of our hymns have spoken deeply to us. Many people, in fact, find that what is heard in poetry and music sinks deeper into the soul than does ordinary prose. And so it is to the beautiful seasonal hymns that Barbara Cawthorne Crafton turns for inspiration for daily meditations during the great devotional seasons of the church year: Advent/Christmas, and Lent.

Let Every Heart Prepare: Meditations for Advent and Christmas

Christian Books & Bibles

For centuries the words and poetry of our hymns have spoken to us of God. Many people, in fact, find that what is heard in poetry and music sinks more deeply into the soul than anything else. And so it is to the beautiful seasonal hymns that Barbara Cawthorne Crafton turns for inspiration for daily meditations during this great devotional season of the church year. "I hope that you find yourself humming familiar tunes to yourself as you read, and that this condition persists for the rest of the day," writes Crafton. Those who have known the hymns forever as well as those who are new to these verses will find them, and Crafton’s meditations on faith, prayer, forgiveness, healing and more, an excellent companion for these important seasons of the year.

Living Lent: Meditations for These Forty Days

In this unique presentation, the poetry of Barbara Crafton and the paintings of Dee Rhodes interpret the paradoxical nature of the Beatitudes in unexpected and insightful ways.

Blessed Paradoxes: The Beatitudes as Painted Prayer

CHURCH PUBLISHING INC

Some Things You Just Have To Live With: Musings On Middle Age

For those navigating the turbulent waters of middle life, Crafton explores the "spilled milk" of lives, the physical changes bodies endure, and the new and energizing purpose one can discover by plunging into a deepened relationship with God.

Some Things You Just Have to Live with: Musings on Middle Age

Parenting & Relationships

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The Sewing Room and Other Essays: Uncommon Reflections on Life, Love, and Work

Finding Time for Serenity

Meditations on the Book of Psalms

The Sewing Room and Other Essays: Uncommon Reflections on Life, Love, and Work

The Sewing Room (G K Hall Large Print Book Series)

The Sewing Room: Uncommon Reflections on Life, Love and Work

Let Every Heart Prepare: Meditations for Advent and Christmas

Living Lent: Meditations for These Forty Days

Blessed Paradoxes: The Beatitudes as Painted Prayer

Some Things You Just Have to Live with: Musings on Middle Age