I first read When The Heart Waits when I was in my mid 40’s and found that it spoke the words of my mid-life growth out of simpler black and white thinking and being into a place more grace-filled and open.
A few years later a friend gave me The Secret Life of Bees and I read most of the night. I found it charming and profound at the same time.

On to another author:  Judith Merkle Riley and her Margaret of Ashbury novels (a total of 3), the first of which is A Vision of Light. These are delightful fiction set in the Middle Ages, full of drama, humor, and roundly developed characterization.

Lastly, Tich Nhat Hanh, a Vietnamese Zen Buddhist, has enlightened, deepened, and broadened my own Christian faith with his books Living Buddha, Living Christ   and   Going Home-Jesus and Buddha as Brothers.  Both of these books contain short 1-2 page reflections, which makes them nice for use during daily devotions.  Another of his that is like a drink of fresh spring water after a long hot hike, is True Love, A Practice for Awakening the Heart.  Thich Nhat Hanh has a lovely, simple, kind style that is way more about the heart than the intellect and merges over and over with  what I read and hear Jesus saying.

Judy
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