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Jessica Mesman Griffith

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Slidell, Louisiana

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Memoir, Nonfiction, Spirituality

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Jessica Mesman Griffith is a widely published writer whose work has been noted in Best American Essays. Her memoir, Love and Salt: A Spiritual Friendship in Letters, co-authored with Amy Andrews, won the 2014 Christopher Award for "literature that affirms the highest values of the human spirit." She is the associate editor of Mind & Spirit, an online magazine about the intersection of faith and psychology. She writes daily devotions for Living Faith and was a long-time contributor to the Image blog Good Letters. Her book of daily meditations on the 2016 lectionary, Grace-Filled Days, is available from Loyola Press and Amazon.

Jess is a member of Ink: A Creative Collective and is represented by the MacGregor Literary Agency. ...more

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If what remained of my family prayed together the night my mother died, I have forgotten. In my memory, there is only darkness and silence. When my dad, sister, and I went to bed after leaving the hospital, we were inexplicably afraid. We didn’t turn on the lights or the television. We slept together in my sister’s room, my dad on a pallet on the floor. I lay there still with the covers pulled

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	Love and Salt: A Spiritual Friendship Shared in Letters by Amy Andrews (Goodreads Author), Jessica Mesman Griffith (Goodreads Author) 4.12 avg rating — 208 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Daily Inspiration for Women by Vinita Hampton Wright, Ginny Kubitz Moyer (Goodreads Author), Jessica Mesman Griffith (Goodreads Author) 4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Strange Journey: How Two Homesick Pilgrims Stumbled Back into the Catholic Church by Jessica Mesman Griffith (Goodreads Author), Jonathan Ryan (Goodreads Author) 4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	2016: A Book of Grace-Filled Days 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Why Religion? A Personal Story

by Elaine Pagels

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“It is painful to remember what and who we've lost, but it's also comforting. Grief can become its own comfort...the moment when grief itself overtakes the one grieved. When they become one and the same, so that we fear grief's retreat as much as we feared the beloved's passing.”
― Amy Andrews and Jessica Mesman Griffith

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“He said that the workings of God can be discerned only in retrospect and that he is always skeptical of people who speculate on God's will for the future, either the future of the world or of an individual life.”
― Amy Andrews and Jessica Mesman Griffith

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“We are so dependent on one another for faith. We hold faith communally, but there is no such thing as faith held communally but by no one in particular. There is nothing that completely transcends the individual. It is true that this person or that person may waiver from time to time. But at all times there must be someone holding it up. Jesus chose Peter exactly for this purpose. "You will be my rock," he said. And Peter had to bear faith, believe even when no one else could.”
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