As it is written, ''Our God is a consuming fire'' (Heb. 12:29); so we also must kindle the divine fire in ourselves through tears and hard work.--Amma Syncletica, fourth century.What could be more natural and timely than …Spiritual wisdom drawn from a woman''s world; word paintings expressed in the poetry of mother-daughter dialogue?Home and hearth lessons in eternal truth, firmly grounded in day-to-day experience?Small scenarios of inquiry and response, deep questioning and fledgling faith, that reverberate with quiet insight?Dialogues that reflect modern levels of questioning; knots of paradox that require a woman''s patient attention and inner care to tease out true, gentle wisdom?A poetic exploration of the large and the small issues of women''s life-nested, braided, interwoven, never fully unraveled-in precise language that retains the mystery but awakens the soul?Enter into the world of Becoming Flame: Uncommon Mother-Daughter Wisdom Dialogues with questions at the end for individual and group study.
