As she observes the world around her and applies the paint of language to her observations, she realizes that spirit and matter are not separate-that now and then moments of meaning emerge from daily life, and the stillness and majesty of the universe shine through.

Preliminary Table of Contents:
ST. MARY OF ENNUI
BOOK ONE: TRANSFIGURATION
Ash Wednesday, 2002
Buying Time
A Vow
A False Spring
Confession
I Am
Housekeeping
A Well Lighted Place
Vocation
Inside This Skin
In Memoriam
St. Augustine
Marriage
Plague Sunday
Monday
Those Things I Didn't Know About Death
Discipline
On Place and Time
Synchronicity
Midpoint
Dusk: Third Sunday in Lent
On Fragility
Children
Wednesday
On the Cusp Between Wednesday & Thursday
A Window Into Radiance
BOOK TWO: CAPTIVA
BOOK THREE: HOME
Sunday
Grace
Wednesday Once Again
Witness
Thresholds
And So
Frogs and Karaoke
Palm Sunday
On Rivers and Cherries
Monday
Tuesday
Midnight, Passover
Wednesday
Thursday
Good Friday
Saturday
Sunday
THE JOY OF ALL WHO SORROW

Susan Neville is the author of five collections of creative nonfiction and fiction, including Fabrication; Invention of Flight, winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction; and Indiana Winter (IUP, 1994). She teaches creative writing at Butler University and is on the faculty of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers.