Consider the Ravens: On Contemporary Hermit Life

Praise for Consider the Ravens Timely, definitive, and universal, Consider the Ravens is a treasure! Reflecting the richness, compassion, and inner peace birthed in solitude, silence, and simplicity, it invites one and all to 'taste and see', to 'be still and know,' and perhaps, to recognize one's own hidden hermit. Highly recommended for hermits and 'wannabe's' alike.Nan C. Merrill, author of Psalms for Praying and Journey into Love, editor of the popular newsletter, Friends of Silence.This book is unique among contemporary eremitic literature because it has emerged from an ongoing dialogue over the years by committed hermits, distilled and creatively organized by a couple who themselves live the life. Hermits will find this book helpful in exploring how they fit into the surprising diversity of this hidden 'movement'. The curious will be fascinated, for the authors have comprehensively intertwined the theoretical and the practical, the dangers and the allures, the misconceptions and the surprising richness, derived from surveys among the readers of 'Raven's Bread,' their quarterly newsletter for those of us practicing the eremitic life.W. Paul Jones, Priest, Trappist Family Brother, social activist, hermit; author of Teaching the Dead Bird to Sing, and The Art of Spiritual Direction.

Religion & Spirituality

Fredette, Karen Karper

Fredette, Paul A.

Christian Books & Bibles

Rising Star

Stumbling down an abandoned trail, Wren and Kyle Makepeace hastily make their way back to civilization after an extraordinary hike into the Smokey Mountains where they have encountered an unknown community of Elders living in Lovada Cove. They are now being Sent back to Laurel Springs, to deliver sad news to one family and assistance to an intangible network of goodness sustained by the Elders.They themselves have been through a traumatic series of experiences which has transfigured their ideals and sense of purpose. Now it is their turn to assist in transforming other lives, most specifically by healing the prejudices which are causing a culture clash between the local mountain folks and the Hispanic workers slowly moving into remote Blackburne County. Progress appears to be made until a fatal fire breaks out among the cabins of the Hispanic community which challenges good-will on both sides. The Cove can Summon you... if you are willing, waken your inmost soul, and send you out with new insight and ideals.

Legend of Lovada Branch: Book Two: Panther Gap

Independently published

Hermits are a rare breed. Married hermits are about as common as spotted owls. Marry a Roman Catholic priest to a former nun, nest them in a mountainside hermitage named Still Wood, and you may have a brand new species. This memoir is a three-way love saga - God, a priest and a nun joined to minister to hermits world-wide and to the mentally disabled in the isolated mountain county of "Bloody" Madison, North Carolina.Each chapter weaves together incidents from four periods of my life - seventeen years in a middle-class Catholic home; thirty spiritually challenging years as a cloistered nun; six transformative years as a hermit, and sixteen loving years as a wife.My earlier book, "Where God Begins to Be, A Woman's Journey into Solitude" has created a crowd of curious readers asking "Why would you? " and "How could you? " marry a priest and continue your commitment to eremitical life? Answering this unforeseen Call has colored my autumn years with excitement, love and challenge.

Where God is Ever found; From Cloister to Couple, A Woman’s Autumn Journey

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

lulu.com

Clare: Her Light and Her Song is a vivid portrait of a strong woman who scandalizes family and friends to follow her beloved mentor, Francis of Assisi, in a life of joyous poverty. Thoroughly researched, this biography faithfully depicts Clare as seen by her contemporaries, including cardinals and popes. Her story is enriched by accounts of the wars, political intrigues and towering figures of the tumultuous thirteenth century in which she played a significant role. The first woman to receive Papal approval for her own Rule of Life, Clare continues as a model for women of the twenty-first century.

Clare: Her Light and Her Song

Biographies & Memoirs

iUniverse, Inc.

Wander into The Cove at will? Not possible. You are either Summoned or Sent. Once there, you are changed...forever. THE COVE is in the hidden heart of the Smokies. This first book covers the amazing journey of Wren and Kyle Makepeace, a couple in their mid-thirties, who discover a mysterious community of Elders dwelling in a forgotten settlement, Lovada Cove. Their journey quickly segues into a period of self-revelation that shakes both their self-images and their marriage relationship. Wren, abandoned shortly after birth, finds her true "Mamaw" and through a series of visionary episodes, discovers horrifying events surrounding her conception and birth. Kyle encounters his own rejected past in the shape of Belva, a she-bear demented by grief. Through Mencie, an ageless, gnome-like figure with preternatural powers who patrols the Borderlands surrounding the Cove, Kyle reclaims his inherited role as a Cherokee shaman as well as the abandoned responsibilities of his priestlhood. Challenged by Jonah, a former mentor and now community Elder, Kyle acknowledges his long-standing feud with God stemming from the tragic death of his twin brother. It is Zettie, another of the Elders of the Cove, who reveals to Wren and Kyle the startling task that is theirs: saving The Cove from treachery by one of their own. Into a storm-lashed night, the couple is sent to confront this Judas while the Cove community keeps prayerful vigil. Confronting, at last, the person who has brought ruin into her own life, Wren faces an appalling decision. Upon her choice rests the future of The Cove. Their odyssey finally brings them both to the secret source of Lovada Branch - The Spring - where further challenges await. The legacy of Lovada Branch is a way of life shaped over generations of communal reading of The Book by a people so isolated that denominational formality has never taken root among them. Descendents of The Cove drift quietly through society, spreading the commingled currents of Native American teaching, mountain lore, radical Christianity and the wisdom of a land that has witnessed millennia of change while itself perduring. The Cove will draw you in...if you are summoned; whisper to your inner soul and then send you back - not unchanged- from whence you came. The Legend of Lovada Branch continues in the next book in the series: "Panther Gap".

Legend of Lovada Branch: Book One: The Cove

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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