Table of Contents
Foreword 8
Introduction 11
1 The Missing Piece 13
2 Silence: Our Greatest Teacher 17
3 Awakening 21
4 The Marian Posture 24
5 Something More: A Vocation Story 28
6 Surprised By Grace 33
7 Not Enough 37
8 Encountering Weakness 40
9 Martha's Gift 43
10 The One Thing 46
11 Original Desire 49
12 Forty Days (Before) 52
13 Heroic Love 55
14 Authenticity 58
15 Facing Death 62
16 The Work of God 65
17 The Woman Knitting in the Chapel 69
18 Learning to Pray 72
19 Letting Go 75
20 Embarrassments 78
21 Suffering Revisited 81
22 The Other Who Loves Us 84
23 Breathing 89
24 A Different Journey 92
25 Mistaken Identity 96
26 Seeing Lisa 100
27 Unpacking 104
28 Beyond Death 108
29 The Contemplative Mind 111
30 An Unusual Christmas 114
31 Becoming Present 119
32 Listening 122
33 Post-Retreat Depression 125
34 Waking Up 129
36 A Path of Intimacy 132
37 Forty Days (After) 135
38 Bringing it to Completion 139
Acknowledgments 143
About the Author 143
