Bøger af Christin Lore Weber

"My time is told in the names of women I have loved. They are the veils that filter light's intensity. They have been my heart's fire," explains Ella, the narrator of a story that extends through the many sacred moons of her life. After living eighty years she is attempting to fit those changing moons, those fragments of experience, those diverse experiences of love into a fullness that has meaning. This is a novel of reflections upon the everyday mysteries of a woman's life. Often dreamlike and mystical, Ella's reflections upon memory create a timeline that is synchronistic rather than chronological.

The CHIARA REFLECTIONS, a book of poems, gives the reader an opportunity to encounter the soul of Clare of Assisi through the contemplative imagination of writer Christin Lore Weber. Here we have a glimpse into the mind and heart of a 13th century Christian mystic, follower and soul-companion of Francis of Assisi, whose hidden struggles and ecstasies take form under the gaze of a modern woman, one who grew to love her across the illusive barriers of time and space.

What can I not live without? What is strong enough to endure the challenges life brings? What is steady enough to survive intact through every change? What is, at the same time, so common, so ordinary, so natural that it warms my heart and gives peace to my mind? This is my Finding Stone.FINDING STONE: An invitation to join Finding Woman on a journey to find your Stone of healing, wisdom, and power.FINDING STONE: A quiet parable and soul-work reflections employing the ancient meditative practice of standing before Life's mysteries.FINDING STONE: A book to be read slowly, kept by your bed, or carried in your backpack, purse, or briefcase. A book to give to a friend.Come, take the journey of the Stone.

Caught in the turmoil of renewal resulting from the Catholic Church's Second Vatican Council in the 1960s, a young nun and her mother struggle to understand and live their faith in a new and often unfamiliar religious world. Sister Christin, eager to implement the new directives from Rome, finds herself with theological vision but without guidelines, wisdom or life experience to create structures for living that vision. "No one knows how to do this!" Humorous and sometimes tragic results ensue. Her mother, Alyce, proud of her daughter but at the same time concerned for her welfare at such an unstable time, encourages and warns her of possible dangers through letters and occasional visits to the convent. As the two women exchange these "words in their fingers," the reader will experience the effect their church in turmoil has upon the lives of each of them.This is a memoir of a turning point, a thin place in the texture of an ancient institution, of a surrounding culture on the edge of a new understanding of the world, and of the souls of even the most common women who lived through those times and attempted to influence the outcome. For the human soul, it was an edge both terrifying and tender.

This revelatory memoir probes the mystical origins of an intimate relationship between a priest and nun during the turbulent era of Catholic Church renewal. Both of them had dedicated their lives to Divine Love in Christian prayer and service. They shared the same ideals, but as the church's vision expanded, they found themselves on a sharp edge of paradox, never knowing if the next choice would be spiritually heroic or a fall into delusion. Wanting to be faithful to the divine call, they felt caught between the laws of the institutional church and the drawing of the spirit within. Some stories require decades in the telling. This is one. For over thirty years the author revealed only snippets. Some understandings require a remembering so deep and stark it might seem preferable to bury even the snippets beyond retrieval, not because they are despised or feared, but because each fragment of the story is finally loved too much.

After fourteen years as a Roman Catholic Sister of St. Joseph and ten years of marriage to a former Catholic priest, Christin Lore Weber was left a widow in mid-life. While still in the early stages of mourning she received a surprising phone call. It was her high school sweetheart, her first love whom she hadn't seen in twenty-seven years, and he was searching for her.

Christin Lore Weber writes about herself as a child who bore a different name--Mary Jane Lore. The people, the places, the stories of the past are as she experienced them in the 1940s between her birth and her eighth year when she lived with her immigrant grandparents and their descendants on the Boundary Waters of Lake of the Woods in Minnesota. The remote beauty of the place, stories she was told of a family struggling to identify as Americans, influences of a grandmother with a steely will and unbreakable determination to succeed, of a mother whose tuberculosis had made childbearing forbidden but who bore her anyway, an early aviator for a father, and a grandfather who could soften an often frightening world with his stories and tenderness. This is a memoir through the eyes of that small child with mythic sensibilities, and interpreted by the woman in her wisdom years whom she finally became.

Where the Great Plains begin, at the border of Minnesota and North Dakota, three families struggle with the land and with one another over generations. Distance and silence cut into their minds and hearts, knife on bone. Some hide from their suffering, some run, some turn to violence and greed. Into this wound comes the "mongrel child" Hannah, who opens herself to the remains of her people. In search of healing, she makes the hero's journey to the core of their affliction and back.

At the turn of the Twentieth Century a young girl, Millie, is caught between her mother's needs, her father's expectations, and a secret that she will need her entire life to recognize. The secret will motivate her towards her most profound yearning and her deepest anguish. Christin Lore Weber writes with an intensity that catches the reader up in the power of language as well as the tangles of relationships between intriguing characters. She weaves a story that will touch your heart.A story, like a shawl, is knit over time and contains various patterns. This story was knit over generations of the lives of women in the lineage of Milda Schatz. Each woman, mother to daughter, down the generations carried the pattern in her fingers and as a flowing thread of memories. Each of them took part.Liese, who hid what she had made, Julia-lost, Julia unraveled, Milda, who tangled and untangled the skein.But Milda also kept the family secrets like heirlooms. "She lifted a box from its hiding place in her dresser drawer and set it on her lap. She took a deep breath before removing the cover. The sight of the blue shawl, unchanged over all these years, drove her heart up into her throat. Her breath caught on it. She made a little sound, involuntary, a moan....She stared at it as though she had never seen it before, and holding it in her hands, felt almost worshipful, as though she held a relic and had become lost in contemplation. She must have sat for an hour, holding the shawl, a thing too beautiful to wear, until her breathing deepened like the breathing of someone in a dream. Then she returned the shawl to its box and replaced it in the bottom of the drawer. On top of it she organized all the other finery, closed the drawer, and turned out the light."