This is a truly inspired book and so much needed in today's world.  From a sociological perspective, the author both identifies and examines several major causes of today's growing divorce rate.  Conflict and perhaps even crisis inevitably come with marriage.  This can initiate either the beginning or the end of a relationship depending on how those involved respond to the challenges.  The author offers several practical tools for growing intimacy in one's relationship.

"I quit," is the easy way out.  The more difficult but more honest and loving choice is to learn how to "work it out."  To do this is the challenge of a personal lifetime.  It is "soul work" and involves learning to respond to the promptings of the Self within, and recognizing and honoring the expressions of soul as they come from one's partner.

The author says that "Soul is the felt sense that there is more to one's self than a job, than a marriage and family, or even one's body and breath.  Soul is the urge to transcend; to feel spirit and know God.  But soul is also the deep desire to be rooted; to be grounded and feel at home."  It is this process of Self discovery that opens the door to the fullness of an authentic and ever-growing relationship; a relationship grounded in the conscious awareness of the one and same Spirit within each self.

Reviewed by:  Sr. Paulette Honeygosky, sc

Recently authored "A Race To Be Won", "About My Cousin St. Faustina", and "The Last Wish of John Paul II"