The Wisdom of Wild Grace by Christine Valters Paintner

The Wisdom of Wild Grace by Christine Valters Paintner

At the core of this collection are 30 poems inspired by the stories of kinship between saints and animals. They come mostly from the early Christian desert and Celtic traditions, but also feature later medieval saints like St. Francis of Assisi and St. Julian of Norwich. These stories point to a reverence for a different way of knowing and being in the world, one our world is hungry for. Each poem in this collection is meant to be a doorway to intimacy with our inner wilderness, a call to sit and be present to what we discover beyond the borders of our neatly controlled worlds.

Christine Valters Paintner is the online abbess of Abbey of the Arts, a virtual monastery that offers contemplative practice and creative expression workshops and tools. She graduated from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, with a PhD in Christian spirituality, and the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association certified her as a qualified expressive arts consultant and educator. She is also a spiritual director and supervisor who has received training. Earth, Our Original Monastery; The Soul's Slow Ripening; Water, Wind, Earth, and Fire; The Artist's Rule; The Soul of a Pilgrim; Lighting the Path; The Wisdom of the Body; and two collections of poetry are among Paintner's works on monasticism and creativity. She is a Benedictine oblate who lives with her husband, John, in Galway, Ireland. They lead literary retreats and pilgrimages together in Ireland, Scotland, Austria, and Germany, as well as online retreats at AbbeyoftheArts.com.

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ISBN 13	9781640605589
ISBN 10	1640605584
Title	The Wisdom of Wild Grace
Author	Christine Valters Paintner
Series	Paraclete Poetry
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Paraclete Press
Year published	2020-10-13
Number of pages	144
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