Does the book have an underlying theme of prayer?
Yes indeed: the life of prayer is God’s love affair with us. When we jump into openness and honesty with God, we discover that we’re the beloved—the one that God is always welcoming home, always preparing a feast for, always saying “I love you” to. The point of prayer is living in that wonderful Good News and letting it form who we are and how we live. If we could just accept that we are the beloved in the heart of God—can you imagine! This sounds like a challenging book. The stories are real-life stories of the twists and turns we all face as we walk this earth. I think it’s challenging because it pushes us to deal with things that we often hide from God. While I realize we don’t really cover anything from our Creator, I also know that I’m foolish enough to think that I’m in control. All of us hold on tight to things and don’t give them to God. Being pushed through right-brain, creative exercises to admit the things that we hold on to is challenging, and even upsetting, for it causes
