In the Bleak Midwinter: Forty Meditations and Prayers for Advent and Christmas

Once again, well-known andbeloved author Herbert Brokeringoffers spiritual nourishment, thistime based on Christina GeorginaRossetti's Christmas carol, "In theBleak Midwinter." This set of fortymeditations and prayers can beopened at leisure or followed as aguide to daily devotions. Either way,it is a rich and imaginative reflectionon the incarnation as God's continualgift to us. The overall tone of thebook shows the depth and beauty,paradoxes and perplexities of thenativity.