Recording Your Advent (A sort of Holiday Examen)

I have written two spiritual books—a memoir about booze and finding God and a work of nonfiction about detachment from the stuff of earth and attachment to the Divine. I worked those words out in quiet, creative spaces, spaces where I did my best to silence the noise of the world and wake to music that is both human and Divine. I tried to translate that music, put it to words. And truth be told, that’s why I keep coming to the page. I believe the dance between the human and the Divine ought to ...