Product Description

Almost every woman knows the press of busy days—days when we can't keep track of what we've done (or haven't done), much less find five minutes to rest. These daily meditations from best-selling author Barbara Crafton—wife, grandmother, priest, retreat leader, and spiritual director—will help women restore the balance and bring perspective into their daily lives.

Crafton explores the things women know well: bags under the eyes, people who monopolize meetings, office politics, middle-age pride, kids leaving home, faith, love, destiny, the impossible images women's magazines perpetuate, friendship, and many more. Here she becomes the wise and funny friend every woman needs every day.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #676461 in Books
• Published on: 2004-08-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 238 pages

From Library Journal
Crafton, an Episcopal priest, presents a series of 365 finely crafted daily meditations that urge women gently and persuasively to seek serenity in the midst of their harried lives. With evocative imagery and sparkling narrative, Crafton locates the sacred in daily experiences such as a mother and child's sharing a subway ride to work and school and a single mother's quest to provide food, housing, and love for her children. These powerful meditations are beautifully rendered and cut across the range of women's experiences. Highly recommended.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From the Publisher
Barbara Crafton...what a lovely writer. Not only that, she is a mother, grandmother, and Episcopal priest living in the suburbs but working in New York City. She knows what it is to be busy---and that's why she wrote this book: to remind each and every one of us of the wisdom and beauty each day of our life can hold, if only we would stop to appreciate it. Her words speak to all of us, and they help to restore balance and bring perspective to our lives. So if your life is spread too thin--whose isn't?--FINDING TIME FOR SERENITY will be a comforting and transforming experience. And if you liked this book as well as I did, you'll also want to read Barbara's other book, MEDITATIONS ON THE BOOK OF PSALMS, which also is a guide to the care and feeding of one's spirit. --E. Zack, Senior Editor, The Ballantine Publishing Group

From the Inside Flap
Daily essays that will help restore balance and bring perspective to every woman's life, written by a wife, mother, and young grandmother . . . who is also an Episcopal priest. For women whose lives are spread too thin, these meditations can be a comforting and transforming experience, awakening us to the miraculous richness of our days and the true value of our achievements.

Customer Reviews

A must for all women who try to do it all!
I won Finding Time for Serenity at a bridge game. I brought it home that evening, read that day's entry, and was hooked for the year! Barbara Cawthorne Crafton's amazing insight into being a mother/wife/daughter/good person is heartwarming. What wisdom she shares with us! I'd love to have lunch with her!

Very helpful book!
Barbara Crafton's style is wise and real. I find myself reading more than one meditation per day because they are so good.