Wrestling with Angels

By Madeline Strong Diehl

Advance Praise for Wrestling with Angels:

"Often bracing and witty, Wrestling with Angels affirms the value of Madeline's life, and in so doing, all life.
Anne Stevenson
2007 Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award for poetry

Madeline's writings testify to the fact that healing does not fall from the sky, but rather comes by tirelessly opening up our hearts and ourselves, and accepting with reverence whatever we find there.
Dr. Max Heirich, PhD
Retired professor, research scientist, former director of the University of Michigan Worker Health Program, and a forty-year explorer and consultant about holistic health and social and personal transformation.

A mesmerizing journey inward into truth turned outward, these words conjure up chuckling, laughing out loud, and tears. Wrestling with Angels has blessed me with a sense of wholeness and a hunch that nothing escapes healing once it is entrusted to truth's tender light.
Lori Watanabe Saginaw
Race dialogue facilitator, Peacemaker

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Jul 23, 2013
• ISBN: 9781452576848

Madeline Strong Diehl

Madeline Strong Diehl's professional writing career spans more than twenty-five years. In addition to her work as a magazine journalist and editor, she writes poems, essays, plays, and fiction. Diehl won the T.S. Eliot Poetry award from the University of Kent at Canterbury (England), and she has also won recognition for her fiction and plays. She combines her writing with a commitment to working beside the many gifted, visionary artists and activists in the nonprofit sector who devote their energies and talents to improving quality of life for all people, and to healing our planet. Madeline lives with her husband in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and they have two children.

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