Doroth Ederer, a Grand Rapids Dominican Sister, has traveled throughout the world, giving lectures and workshops on the spiritual life. With graduate degrees in education and counseling, she was for many years a teacher and a university campus minister in Kalamazoo, Michigan. She now lives in Albany, New York, where she is codirector of the Joshua Foundation, an organization dedicated to making the Gospels a living part of today's world. This is her first book.