Barbara Garro, MA, CPCU, retired from active risk and insurance management in 1989 for health reasons and then embarked on a successful second career as a writer, artist and speaker. In 1989, she founded Electric Envisions, Inc.:
http://www.ElectricEnvisions.com
a private corporation focused on helping people grow themselves lives they’ll love living. Her popular books include: Grow Yourself a Life You’ll Love, From Jesus to
Heaven with Love: A Parable Pilgrimage (first book in the Jesus’s Parable Series), and Seasons: Haiku & More. For nearly 20 years, she has written several syndicated
business columns for small business and currently syndicates Garro Talk, focused on growing yourself a life you’ll love in the work world.

Garro wrote The Comfort of the Shepherd: Parable Prayer and Meditation, as the second book in her Jesus’s Parables Series. Her painting, Facets of the Great Mystery, a depiction of The Holy Trinity, appears on its cover.

Several of her spiritual poems and excerpts are found throughout the book. Her work includes Spiritual Direction Coaching for private clients, mostly by
telephone. She has lectured and taught the Liturgy of the Word for children for over 40 years. In the 1990s, Garro wrote, produced and performed God’s Neighborhood, an ecumenical weekly cable television show for
children.

Readers can e-mail Barbara Garro at: