The Abbey Up the Hill

A recovering alcoholic and spiritual gypsy who tried the Catholic Church, the Episcopal Church, and Alchoholics Anonymous finds the spiritual home she had been seeking in a Benedictine abbey, and reflects on her first year as a Benedictine oblate--a layperson vowing to live according to the sixth-century Rule of St. Benedict, a monastic guide to living a balanced life with God at the center. Original.