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Rear cover notes: "Like millions of people today, Molly Wolf longed to discover where God fit into her life. Searching for answers in writings on religion and spirituality, she found abstruse analyses that, she admits, awakened 'an overwhelming urge to go clean the refrigerator.' The personal accounts she read about the 'joys' of suffering were equally uninspiring (and uninspired). Her solution was to explore God by writing about her own experiences - recording the practical, here-and-now aspects of spirituality. She shared her weekly musings on two Internet mailing lists, one in Canada, one international. What began as a simple yet profound personal journey soon attracted an enthusiastic audience of thousands of people worldwide. In A Place Like Any Other, Wolf offers readers the best of her essays. Steering clear of both obscure scholarly references and sugary sentimentality, Wolf writes about what is going on in her life with refreshing honesty. She uncovers spiritual lessons in the most common of places and events, and transforms God-talk into accessible, plainspoken conversation. Her words speak directly to the heart, showing how anyone can discover God's presence in their own life: 'All we have to do is be aware of it, and God's love washes through and over the ordinariness.'"
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You will like this person: "I live in an untidy Victorian house much in need of paint and landscaping, in a totally unremarkable beer-and-pretzel-ish small town, in one of the least picturesque areas of a largish Canadian province, and the life I lead is almost completely without interesting incident. I am plain and middle-aged; my hair is usually all over the place, and I could easily lose more than a few pounds." This is how Molly Wolf introduces herself on the first page of her book about finding God in everyday life, A Place Like Any Other. Wolf's God makes himself known in unusual ways--"lurking," "seeping," and "playing"--and seems, inexplicably yet undeniably, to be keeping watch over both the field mice in her yard and the cats who hunt them. Wolf, who had not written for more than two decades, began posting "short meditation-type pieces on several Internet mailing lists" just a few years ago. The pieces, which Wolf posts on Saturdays, are called "Sabbath Blessings," and this book is comprised of a year's worth of such pieces. Each essay is only a few pages long, and each one offers another aspect of Wolf's open-eyed, bittersweet, both-feet- on-the-ground spiritual sensibility. From "Mud Season" to "Leaf Season," Wolf perceives a divine presence in every moment of time.
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