There Is a Season

by Joan D. Chittister, John August Swanson (Contributor)

There Is A Season provides a glorious meditation in art and words on the famous passage from the Bible. Exploring timeless themes of the purpose and value of human life. Joan Chittister reflects on John Swanson's art, which in turn illustrates her text. There Is A Season shows how human fulfillment and true happiness come, not from getting and having more and more - the fancy house, the big promotion, the perfect family - but from knowing and valuing that which we have. Friendship and laughter, patience and sorrow, humility and compassion, from birth through death - all these are God's gifts to us, the precious moments of life itself.

Genres: Spirituality

118 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1995

About the author

Joan Daugherty Chittister, O.S.B., is an American Benedictine nun, theologian, author, and speaker. She has served as Benedictine prioress and Benedictine federation president, president of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, and co-chair of the Global Peace Initiative of Women.

Reviews

[Karen Guszkowski · Rating 5 out of 5]

A beautiful book for spirituality, and meditation. Read it just a couple of pages at a time.

[Katie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Joan Chittister has great insight well written in this book. Layout is beautiful. A book I could pick up time and again for inspiration and thought throughout various times in life.

[Sharon · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a beautiful book. It is one I had to own within minutes of discovering it, and I love it. The painting is luminous and the text is well written and thought provoking.

[Silas Bergen · Rating 4 out of 5]

A wonderful meditation on artwork "Ecclesiastes " by John August Swanson, this book stays with me. Sister Joan has such a beautiful way of naming the joys and sufferings of this life and how we can best learn from everything Time has to offer.

[Kathy Nealen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautiful, colorful meditations on the book of Ecclesiastes along with a painting inspired by the same verses. Full of individual bits of wisdom that can be pondered repeatedly.

[Pamela Mettler · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is such a well written chronicle of insights into the book of Ecclesiastes.