Deep Friendship
Deep Friendship shows how, by holding each other with trust and compassion, our shells fall away, and we emerge as freer beings. Participating in a true friendship is profound and holy work. This book is a gift for the journey.
Gunilla Norris has gifted us with a marvelous book on creating and nurturing authentic friendships. The poetry of her words will bless you with every page turn. Deep Friendship sings of a resilient faith lifted out of the dance of life.
—Macrina Wiederkehr, OSB, retreat guide and author of Abide: Keeping Vigil with the Word of God
Norris’ central idea is that mystery is the core of being. It is in us and around us. Given a chance, something deep inside will show up as longing, something that can’t be explained but needs expression. This is what she begins to call “soul singing.”
Here are words written out of silence that do not destroy the silence, but invite us to embrace it and find our own way in and through to the source. Here is a book that offers us the solace of simplicity found on the other side of complexity. May it bless you as it has blessed me.
Soul Songs awakens to the sacredness that suffuses everyday life. The collection is a flow through the heart-wisdom -each song calls forth a previous and often hidden part of our being.
Discerning with the Heart, Praying for Guidance and Vision
We are making decisions all the time, big ones and little ones. Choice by choice our lives unfold and reveal our hopes, desires, fears and goals. Though we generally don’t think about it in the thick of daily living, making choices is a discerning process. Using information, reasoning, necessity and opportunity we do what we can and are using our minds to the full. But it is when our minds support our hearts that we live more intentionally. The essays in this book are nudges to invite the leanings of the heart to be central to making conscious and faithful choices and so help us to live our deepest values.
Old and Singing
Gunilla Norris is now at the height of her powers as a poet. The poems in this new collection are sublime–one after another and another. Reading them, I can hardly catch my breath . . . Ms. Norris observes life so closely and opens ordinary moments into what I can only call the divine realms.
Stephen Cope, Scholar Emeritus, Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health Best-selling author of The Great Work of Your Life, and Soul Friends.
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