In this popular book first published in 1996, Suzanne Guthrie teaches us about the seasons of prayer by letting us enter her own in these forty meditations that stretch from Advent through Pentecost. Pray as you are drawn to pray, she tells us, not as someone has told you how to pray. Against the landscape of northern California, the author gently leads us through the ancient 'illuminative way of prayer, learning to see the extraordinary reality of God in the ordinary the dry grass and circling hawks, raging firestorms in summer and the heavy winter rains.