Seeking Surrender: How My Friendship with a Trappist Monk Taught Me to Trust and Embrace Life Wood Crosses Presented in a box

Presented in a box

congregational expectations

and hell—the Four Last Things

They tell each other

from Chet Baker to Port-A-Potties--through a Catholic

Seeking Surrender: How My Friendship with a Trappist Monk Taught Me to Trust and Embrace Life Wood Crosses Presented in a boxAn unlikely friendship between Colette Lafia and a silent monk at the Abbey of Gethsemani, where Thomas Merton lived, comes to life through seven years of shared letters. Lafia's palpable openness and warm storytelling lead readers through the same compassionate process that led the author to accept herself, find peace with life, and strive for an ever deepening relationship with God. Folded within the deep friendship cultivated through letters