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    Wild Hope: Stories for Lent from the Vanishing
    Wild Hope: Stories for Lent from the Vanishing
    Wild Hope: Stories for Lent from the Vanishing
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    Wild Hope: Stories for Lent from the Vanishing

    Written by Gayle Boss

    Narrated by Gayle Boss

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    From bestselling author Gayle Boss (All Creation Waits: The Advent Mystery of New Beginnings) comes an illustrated Lenten reader filled with twenty-five of Earth's rare and wild creatures. Their stories, while tragic and uncomfortable, will wake readers to greater compassion and hope— which is what Lent, meaning "springtime," has always been for.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherParaclete Press
    Release dateJan 10, 2020
    ISBN9781640605732
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    Gayle Boss

    Gayle Boss writes from West Michigan, where she was born and raised. Her lifelong love of animals and her immersion in spiritual texts and practices have melded in poems and essays that explore how relationships with animals specifically, and an attentive presence in the natural world generally, restore us to our deepest selves. Also the author of Wild Hope: Stories for Lent from the Vanishing, Gayle lives with her husband and Welsh corgi rescue.

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