The author of The Holy Longing explores the debilitating obsessions that often dominate our lives and offers downtoearth guidance for learning to leave our fears anxieties and guilt forgotten among the lilies.Rarely do we taste the food we eat or the coffee we drink. Instead we go through our days too preoccupied too compulsive and too dissatisfied to really be able to be present for and celebrate our own lives Ronald Rolheiser writes in the introduction to this powerful collection of essays.Forgotten Among the Lilies shows that there is a better way to find contentment and joy. Only by trusting in Gods grace and providence Rolheiser argues can we move beyond our obsessions and rejoice in what we have and who we are.With his trademark blend of insight compassion and honesty laced with humor the author teaches that it is possible to experience freedom instead of anxiety solitude instead of loneliness and a generosity of spirit that returns to the giver far more than it costs. show more