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Based on beautiful seasonal hymns, Crafton's daily meditations on faith, prayer, forgiveness, and healing for Advent and Christmas make an excellent companion for the season.

Everybody figures it out sooner or later: Even in a Botox world that promises eternal youth, some things from aches and pains to wrinkles, from menopause to the empty nest you just have to live with. But despite the challenges, those who are reaching middle age yesterday s Baby Boomers might not want to turn back the clock. Instead, as their bodies change and their priorities shift, they re looking to cull wisdom from their experience and find spiritual meaning in their re-examined lives. In Some Things You Just Have to Live With, author Barbara Cawthorne Crafton explores the spilled milk of our lives, the physical changes our bodies endure, and the new and energizing purpose we can discover by plunging into the middle of life in a deeper and sometimes mystifying relationship with God. A wonderful storyteller, Crafton writes with humor and pathos rather than a heavy hand, allowing readers to see themselves and their own lives in the unfolding pages. Some Things You Just Have to Live With is a source of inspiration and smiles to those navigating the turbulent waters of the middle of life."

Barbara Cawthorne Crafton is among the first women ordained to the Episcopal priesthood, in which capacity she has ministered in both the richest and poorest sections of New York City. She is also a sensitive writer who addresses the human condition with plainspoken eloquence and bracing moral common sense. Cynthia Ozick writes, "The Reverend Crafton's purity of insight and pellucid voice suggest transparencies - one sees straight through them into the unshielded light of the plainest human truths. A shelf is dusted, a grandmother's sewing machine is recalled, mothers and fathers are praised and appraised, a lost child is mourned - and the weave of our lives is movingly unwound, ribbon by ribbon, until our hands are filled with rosiness and rue. Upon small moments large mercies are shed. Barbara Crafton's essays are everyone's heirlooms". These rich, moving essays will be read again and again.

Here is Barbara Crafton at her best¿funny, warm, direct, honest, and vulnerable¿on aging. ¿I think growing older is both funny and sad, but mostly it just makes me grateful to be alive and able to reflect. I have been an Episcopal priest for 33 years and have had extensive experience in ministering with the elderly. Now, I am growing old myself. I hate it when people are ashamed of being old. We should be proud!¿ she proclaims. Join her in this celebration of life!

The companion for the busy woman, these daily meditations restore balance and bring perspective to daily life. Drawing on her experiences as wife, grandmother, priest, retreat leader and spiritual director, this is Barbara Crafton as the wise and funny friend every woman needs every day.

365 days of meditations based on passages from the Psalms.