A Stone for a Pillow : Journeys with Jacob

"As always when I struggle to find the truth of something," the author writes, "I turn to story for illumination. And as I grapple with the angels of difficult questions, I think of Jacob who saw a ladder of angels, reaching from earth to heaven... linking heaven to earth, the creation to the Creator, not separated from each other but participating in each other. Delight. At-one-ment." Just as Madeleine L'Engle finds in Jacob a companion for her journey, readers of this second volume in her Genesis Trilogy will delight in her companionship on their own journey. But their answers to the book's many questions must finally be their own. The subjects are numerous and the questions vexing: What is the significance of angels, redemption, sexual identity, blessing, forgiveness, and the conflict of good versus evil? The reader will ponder these topics in the stimulating company of a biblical patriarch, a modern artist, and a powerful Presence known to spiritual travelers of all generations, the El Shaddai or God Almighty revealed in Genesis. Book jacket.