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Summary: Discovering Faith From An Ancient Tradition
Review: What I liked about Kristin Ohlson's Stalking The Divine was how she was able to rediscover her lost Faith. I liked how she took me on her personal and intimate journey. Her first curiosity about the elderly man sitting behind her in the Church was the beginning. She began the search. It grew each week. She let me in on the very private and ancient lives of contempative women, who, just like Kristin, are constantly searching for their Faith. They just fully BELIEVE. I loved the simplicty of the Poor Clares' lives. I loved the humanness of everyone in her book. I like walking in Kristin's foot steps. Thanks for the journey.James Cremin, Jr.
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Summary: strong look at finding one's faith
Review: When she was six, Kristin Ohlson believed and wanted to become a nun. As she grew older, she not only forgot her ambition, but also drifted from Catholicism. Years later, feeling alone on Christmas morning, Kristin finds an advertisement for mass at Cleveland's St. Paul Shrine. She attends with a few others, but felt she belonged. Still she wondered about the sixteen remaining cloistered nuns at the monastery, who are the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration praying to God 24/7 to lift the sorrows of humanity. Ohlson using the Poor Clares as a spiritual guide has begun a journey to find her own faith though she lacks their dedication and belief and falters often. Thus while committed she wonders if she is crazy. This is a strong biography due to the author's conflicting dualism and her comparison to her model the Poor Clares. Unlike many books in which middle age crisis leads to healing faith-finding nirvana, Ms. Ohlson admits she teeters back and forth. She confesses that while STALKING THE DIVINE: CONTEMPLATING FAITH WITH THE POOR CLARES whose beliefs encourages her but also frightens her as she pales next to her role models. Readers will feel the same way yet will find they are motivated for the better good. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: Living a Grace-Filled Life in a Broken World
Review: Whether a spiritual searcher is stalking or being stalked by Divine love and grace, Kristen Ohlen's, Stalking the Divine, is a hope-filled book. She takes us along on her search for 'something' that will speak to her deadness, spark her hope, and fill the void that threatens to engulf. She discovers what lovers of God for thousands of years have discovered, that the God of love, of faith and of hope dwells among us and can be apprehended in the rituals and traditions of her childhood faith. How blessed are we who long to "fill up with grace, with the radiance of belief" that there are Poor Clares and other faithful comtempletives who pray 'unceasingly.' Through their prayers one day we too may be so full of that Divine Presence that we will be able to shine on others who suffer with "withered hopes and wounded hearts." Thank you Kristin for your hope-filled book.
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Summary: Living a Grace-Filled Life in a Broken World
Review: Whether a spiritual searcher is stalking or being stalked by Divine love and grace, Kristen Ohlen's, Stalking the Divine, is a hope-filled book. She takes us along on her search for 'something' that will speak to her deadness, spark her hope, and fill the void that threatens to engulf. She discovers what lovers of God for thousands of years have discovered, that the God of love, of faith and of hope dwells among us and can be apprehended in the rituals and traditions of her childhood faith. How blessed are we who long to "fill up with grace, with the radiance of belief" that there are Poor Clares and other faithful comtempletives who pray 'unceasingly.' Through their prayers one day we too may be so full of that Divine Presence that we will be able to shine on others who suffer with "withered hopes and wounded hearts." Thank you Kristin for your hope-filled book.
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Summary: Great read - one of the best this year
Review: Wow! Take a walk with Kristin Ohlson through a path of self-discovery that also results in a sensitive inside look at the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration. Ohlson stopped by a Christmas mass and found the Poor Clares quite by accident but became interested in the sixteen cloistered nuns in the small monastery in Cleveland, Ohio. As Kristin Ohlson seeks to understand this small group of nuns at a monastery in Cleveland, Ohio she comes to an understanding not only of their faith but her own faith as well. Both an autobiographical look at this period in Ohlson's life and a general biographical account of the nuns, the story is deeply moving, beautifully written and one of the best biographical stories of the year. "Stalking the Divine" is a highly recommended read.
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