"Who am I, when the person who saw and knew me best in all the world is gone from this world?" Jan Richardson's question lies at the heart of Sparrow, her luminous new book about making a life after the sudden death of her husband, the singer/songwriter Garrison Doles. She resists simple answers for deepest sorrow, entering instead into the raw complexities of grief, which she calls "the least linear thing I know."

The Cure for Sorrow: A Book of Blessings for Times of Grief

From her own loss, Jan offers an unforgettable gift of solace that invites us to know the tenacity of hope and to recognize the enduring presence of love that, as she writes, is “sorrow’s most lasting cure.”

A blessing meets us in the place of our deepest loss. In that place, it gives us a glimpse of wholeness and claims that wholeness here and now. —from the Introduction

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Circle of Grace: A Book of Blessings
for the Seasons

Within the struggle, joy, pain, and delight that attend our life, there is an invisible circle of grace that enfolds and encompasses us in every moment. Blessings help us to perceive this circle of grace, to find our place of belonging within it, and to receive the strength the circle holds for us. —from the Introduction

Beginning in Advent and moving through the sacred seasons of the Christian year, Circle of Grace offers Jan's distinctive and poetic blessings that illuminate the treasures each season offers to us.

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Night Visions: Searching the Shadows
of Advent and Christmas

Jan's original artwork, reflections, poetry, and prayers accompany the reader from the first days of Advent through the Feast of the Epiphany, beckoning us to encounter the God who dwells in darkness as well as in daylight. Treasured by readers who return to it each Advent, Night Visions makes a great gift for yourself and others during this sacred season.

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