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The Losses of Our Lives,
The Sacred Gifts of Renewal in Everyday Loss
Author: Dr Nancy Copeland-Payton Skylight Paths Publishing
Who has not been touched by loss? This book invites us awaken to life’s endless stream of immeasurable gifts … and our experience of loss at their passing. To embrace the wisdom taught to us in our everyday losses can bring us closer to the deep mystery of God and the nature of living. Such wisdom can help sustain us on journeys through life’s more painful losses.
Latest Writings from Nancy
Empty Tea Cups (published in Horizons Magazine, Jan-Feb 2010)
A student visits a spiritual master. They sit together and the student begins to talk. And talk and talk. Two empty cups sit on the table for tea. The master slowly pours amber liquid into the student’s cup. When the cup is full, the master continues to pour as tea brims the cup and flows onto the table. “Stop!” shouts the student, “The cup is full and cannot take anymore.” The master pauses and gently sets down the teapot. “So it is with you. How can you receive anything when you are already full to overflowing with other things?”