This book offers inspiration to readers in a world of increasing need for spiritual formation. It provides words of encouragement, guidance, and hope for a broad range of readers from the experiences of a layperson. The essays in Sighing Forth My Soul will call laity, clergy, Christian educators, and other constituencies to reexamine present circumstances and to consider possible alternatives for changing the course of their lives and the life of their communities.

This book offers inspiration to readers in a world of increasing need for spiritual formation. It provides words of encouragement, guidance, and hope for a broad range of readers from the experiences of a layperson. The essays in Sighing Forth My Soul will call laity, clergy, Christian educators, and other constituencies to reexamine present circumstances and to consider possible alternatives for changing the course of their lives and the life of their communities.