{"product_id":"in-praise-of-houseflies","title":"In Praise of Houseflies","description":"\u003cp data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"preFade fadeIn\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThrough the lens of personal experience, Elise Tegegne reflects on the redemptive glimmers in ordinary challenges ranging from canceled flights to insomnia. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn Praise of Houseflies\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e offers readers an opportunity to listen for what their own everyday quandaries can teach and to delight in the abundant graces blossoming within them. This book is an essential message of hope, joy, and redemption imparted through deep, nourishing reflection.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"preFade fadeIn\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Wisdom arrives over time, and nearly always as a result of quiet choices made in the midst of affliction. In her essay collection, In Praise of Houseflies, Elise Tegegne offers hard-won insight into how even our sufferings-exile, isolation, privation, humiliation, loss, pain, and grief-might be recognized as the very means by which the soul becomes a trusting and trustworthy source of stillness and of peace.\" —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eScott Cairns\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe End of Suffering: Finding Purpose in Pain\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"preFade fadeIn\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"This book is a blessing-an elegant reminder of how grace is threaded through the day, always available-especially in challenges, annoyances and disappointments. Elise's lively reflections range from small moments of insight to rich stories of how God shows up \"lovely in limbs, lovely in eyes not his.\" Her openness to receiving that grace and sharing it, and the ways she calls in the wisdom of spiritual writers and teachers are timely encouragements to live into hard moments with hope and confident prayer and expectation of adventure.\" —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMarilyn McEntyre\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCaring for Words in a Culture of Lies\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Calla Press Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55275584160035,"sku":null,"price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0989\/7282\/7939\/files\/CallaPressMay-7_1.jpg?v=1782306713","url":"https:\/\/callapresspublishing.com\/products\/in-praise-of-houseflies","provider":"Calla Press Publishing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}