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Living Prayer

by Robert Benson

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Bailey Leslie said: " “We seek, one might say, a way to live one life instead of two” (p. 193)

This book beautifully curates an honest, vulnerable, and real way of “Living Prayer”. Will return to this book again and again as a companion in my prayer life. "

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She looks longingly over my shoulder, then glances at both Mira and me in turn. “You don’t have to understand my choices. You simply have to survive. I love you enough to bear the weight of your disappointment.” Before either of us ...more

I wanted more of the mother in this book: her perspective, her decisions, her humanity. Maybe because I can understand the decisions she’s making in the sense that they’re terrible and almost unforgivable but founded on a love that is even more so than all those other things.