What controls us? What gives meaning to our lives? How can we live a life shared with others? The seasons of Lent and Easter are traditionally times to reflect upon such fundamental questions as these. In this gentle, reflective book, Jane Williams encourages us to make space for reflection and, in so doing, to draw closer to God.

Many of us conceive of Lent as a negative time, a time to give things up. Jane Williams, however, encourages us to hear the good news that God loves us, to try to believe it for ourselves, and then to spend the forty days of the season attempting to find out what that means. In each chapter she blends personal story, spiritual reflection, and quotations from Scripture or other sources to offer an imaginative and powerful way into the meaning of the season.