A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life Phil Keaggy and reflection prompts for personal

and reflection prompts for personal response

Before a Meal Eaten Alone

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For When the News is BadFor Hours of UncertaintyFor the Feeling of InfirmitiesBefore a Medical TreatmentFor the Morning of a Medical ProcedureFor Dying WellFor a Time of Widespread SufferingFor Those Who Tend a Loved One in DeclineInterceding for One slowly Losing FunctionFor Those Facing the Slow Loss of MemoryFor Long-Term Care GiversFor Caregivers in Need of RestFor the Living of Last ThingsPraise for This Day of LifeReleasing Ambitions & Embracing ChristFor Preparing the Heart to Return to God What Is HisSeeking Amendment & ReconciliationStir Courage in a Child Facing DeathFor a Child Contemplating HeavenFor Those Who Will Gather to Grieve For MeFor the Dying and Their FriendsFor Those Who Tend the Sick or DyingA Lesson We May Learn from DeathGiving Voice to the Costly ConfessionFor Moments When Dying Feels UnfairFor those Enduring Lasting PainFor One Who Lingers in a Long DyingFor the Speaking of Meaningful ThingsOne Might Record for Their Own FuneralFor Letting Go of the Hope of RecoveryFor the Weighing of Last-Stage Medical Options12 Meditations to Anchor the Heart in Eternal HopesTo Begin a Beside VigilBefore Ending Life SupportFor the Final HoursMomentary LiturgiesIntercession Against the Kingdom of Death

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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life Phil Keaggy and reflection prompts for personalNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the Booker Prizewinning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselvesand our world today. For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us,