Strenuous Blessings - Softcover

Cushman, Mary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0692934510 ISBN 13: 9780692934517

Publisher: Bennetts Cove Books, 2017

Synopsis

This book of personal essays addresses experiences that—though often laced with emotional pain—led the author to deep gratitude. Hence the book’s title: Strenuous Blessings. Written in a direct, penetrating, singularly readable style, the stories focus on challenges such as infertility, step mothering, and serious childhood illness. These issues are explored from the inside out, chronicling pathways from heartache to gratefulness.

About this title

About the Author:

Mary had an early and illustrious career as a waitress before graduating from the University of Southern Maine. She then worked as a community organizer, co-owned a vocational rehabilitation firm, and was co-founder and director of the first shelter for battered women in Maine. In the late 1980’s she graduated from Yale Divinity School and was ordained an Episcopal priest. She and her husband, Tom, also a priest, worked for a decade in large urban parishes, and then maintained a counseling and spiritual direction practice in Portland, Maine, for almost two decades. They live on nearby Chebeague Island. The Cushmans are the authors of Riding the Passionate Edge, published in 2014.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bennetts Cove Books
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0692934510
• ISBN 13: 9780692934517
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 152