Lester M. (ThreeCats) reviewed on 2/16/2008 + 34 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 14

The author is a widow with four children, and after her husband's death, she became a Unitarian Universalist minister and chaplain to Maine wildlife officers. The book is a series of stories bound lightly by her understanding of God, which she explains with an alternate selection of the Greek work "logos" which is usually translated as "word." Her alternate version of John 1:1 is "In the beginning was the story, and the story was with God, and the story was God."

This isn't a preachy book; she is not pushing her agenda or her beliefs upon you. She simply answers, with honesty and not a little humor, two questions: What on earth would the wildlife officers of Maine need a chaplain for? Where is God in the midst of unbearable tragedy?

Where do we find God in these stories of tragedy? In the love. She asks you to find the love in the tragedy and to throw yourself into the arms of the love, for the love will surely catch you.

Highly recommended.

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