Name: Jennifer Grant
Where you live: suburban Chicago
Where you live: suburban Chicago
What you do as a vocation or avocation? I’m a writer.
Your two favorite books:
(Oooh, hard to choose, of course, so I went with first two that came to mind.)
Call it Sleep
by Henry Roth
by Henry RothI Capture the Castle
by Dodie Smith
by Dodie SmithYour two favorite songs:
Into the Mystic
by Van Morrison
by Van MorrisonOne Day
by Matisyahu
by MatisyahuWhy you are interested in spirituality?
I am a grateful believer in Christ, have been a member of the Episcopal church for most of my life, and have been blessed to have had a few brushes with the Divine – inescapable, unmistakable ones – over the years.
Your favorite quote:
“So you see, imagination needs moodling – long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.” – Brenda Ueland
Or,
from a song lyric in Stephen Sondheim’s “Into the Woods” (the song is “I Know Things Now” which is full of good quotes):
“Nice is different than good.”
Your favorite web sites:
Your hero?
American abolitionist and suffragist Lucy Stone.
American abolitionist and suffragist Lucy Stone.
A spiritual lesson you hope to learn?
I am working on “being still” (and knowing that God is God – Psalm 46:10). Giving attention to my four children, my marriage, my community and my writing work fills my days to the brim. I am careful about to whom and to what I give my time, but too often fall into the traps of multitasking and “busy-ness.” I have been at work in a deliberate way since last fall to see God in the people and events around me. To watch, listen, and wait more carefully for God.
A place in the world where you feel spiritually “connected?“
Last year I had the privilege of visiting Botswana and spending a few days in the Okavango Delta and I still catch my breath to remember its beauty and the sense of sheer wonder in God’s creation I experienced there. Sometimes I almost say, “It’s a magical place,” but then I correct myself. It’s a spiritual place, overflowing with signs of God’s creativity and love.
Last year I had the privilege of visiting Botswana and spending a few days in the Okavango Delta and I still catch my breath to remember its beauty and the sense of sheer wonder in God’s creation I experienced there. Sometimes I almost say, “It’s a magical place,” but then I correct myself. It’s a spiritual place, overflowing with signs of God’s creativity and love.
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