Grief, forgiveness, and redemption as a way of transformation

The human condition is full of grief and guilt, and there are various ways of coping with them. Pryce writes of a way that leads to healing, spiritual faith, and redemption. This is a profound and important explanation of how anguish and despair, seen through to acceptance, can open us to an experience of meeting the sacred, the ground of our being, in the silence and stillness. This is transformative, transmuting fear and despair, unlocking love, compassion, hope, and faith. This harsh but transformative way changes for us the meaning of life and how we live.
Pryce speaks out of her own experience and that of others, including George Fox and Isaac Penington. She weaves wise and helpful reflection through her tale of loss, grief, guilt, forgiveness, compassion, redemption, wholeness,, of courage, faith and grace. As I often find, the second reading offers more learning than the first. This pamphlet is helpful, I believe, not only for those who have experienced deep grief, but also for all who seek to understand the ways of faith and transformation. Pryce writes that "grief itself, experienced deeply with acceptance and acknowledgement, can become an inward sacrament, a communion that realizes the experience of the Spirit, awareness of the eternal dimensions of human experience." We must take care to pay attention to notice these intimations.… (more)