Grace Period: My Ordination to the Ordinary

by Melinda Worth Popham

Book Overview

Author Melinda Worth Popham left home for Yale Divinity School at age fifty-six after a barrage of painful life events-above all, the nightmare of her teenage daughter's life-threatening depression. These events brought her to her knees, and a monastic method of meditation became her mainstay as well as her portal to the holy. This memoir, Grace Period, tells the story of one mother's experience of a daughter's intractable illness and the discovery...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1491776021
• ISBN13: 9781491776025
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"