Synopses & Reviews
In 1955, Anne Morrow Lindbergh gave a gift to millions of women in her much beloved Gift from the Sea. Two generations later, Anne Johnson invites women to discover the beauty and meaning of Lindbergh's timeless "shells" all over again in Return to the Sea. Lindbergh's book revealed how the sea has gifts to give to all who find their lives too busy and out of focus. Using the metaphor of shells to explore the inner spiritual path, Lindbergh gently led her readers to practice simplifying, quieting, shedding, and centering. Today, women are struggling to balance career, family, creative, and spiritual needs. Many of us have long since let go of the idealistic contemplative corner that Lindbergh envisioned, but not of our longing for it. In Return to the Sea, we are led back to Lindbergh's beach where the shells can be our teachers once again. Using experiences from her own spiritual journey-as a mother, career woman, and therapist-Johnson offers her readers a renewed vision of ways to create intentional space in our lives for personal and spiritual growth. Shell illustrations, along with meditations, centering and journal writing exercises, enhance each chapter's reflections on Lindbergh's original shell passages.
Synopsis
In 1955, Lindbergh gave a gift to millions of women in "Gift from the Sea". In "Return to the Sea", Johnson weaves reflections on the gifts of Lindbergh's "shells" with vignettes of her personal path of spiritual growth. Line drawings.
Synopsis
In 1955, Anne Morrow Lindbergh gave a gift to millions of women in her much-beloved Gift from the Sea. Two generations later, Anne Johnson invites women to discover the beauty and meaning of Lindbergh's timeless "shells" all over again.
Gift from the Sea, a million-copy bestseller, revealed how the sea has gifts to give to all who find their daily lives too busy, too hurried, too unharmonius. Using shells found along the sea-shore during her quiet retreat to an isolated island, Lindbergh offered lessons of hope and direction for restructuring the outer patterns of women's lives in order to find a new balance in living.
In Return to the Sea, Anne Johnson leads us back to Lindbergh's beach and lets the shells be our teachers once again. But this time, they have new lessons to offer, new spiritual depths to explore. Like a well-worn copy of Lindbergh's classic hiding deep in your bookshelf, the sea of inner stillness awaits patiently for your inevitable return.