My Life as a Prayer

One of the most engaging memoirs Ive read in ages. The wise and feisty voice I've cometo know and love in Elizabeth Cunninghams Maeve Chronicles fills these pages andcarried me away. Anyone who has forged an independent path through the luminousmoments and deepest shadows of a soul-filled life will recognize their own spiritualadventures reflected here.Mirabai Starr, God of LoveIn this intriguing spiritual memoir, The Maeve Chronicles author Elizabeth Cunningham traces her dynamic faith journey and its relationship to her writing.As the daughter of an Episcopal priest, author Elizabeth Cunningham was born into community, sacred story, and the mysteries of prayer. For her, If a writer is one who writes, then a prayer is one who prays. As such, her praying is dynamic, a dance between many oppositesactive vs. contemplative, community vs. individual, human vs. wildand Cunningham sees the divine as both incarnate and transcendent, an intimate beloved and a vast mystery. When she prays, Cunningham is both audacious and reverent, asking tough questions of Godraging, listening intently, and dancing and singing ecstatically. Her storytellers imagination opens a path from the known to the unknowable, from despair to wonder.In this nonfiction debut, Cunningham recounts both her lifelong spiritual quest and her ongoing spiritual questions. Her journey takes her from her childhood church, with its ornate liturgy, to the silence of Quaker meeting; from her ordination as an interfaith minister to an eclectic, earth-centered community where she served as priestess before becoming a hermit, of sorts, making a church of her own backyard.Candid and passionate, Cunninghams memoir invites readers of all faithsand doubts!to explore what it means to live life as a prayer in the beautiful, imperiled world we share.