Description
We're told we need to open the door to find answers. What if we need to close one?
Maybe you don't need to do more. You need a room of your own-an anchorhold.
During my father's final years, I drove a wheezing minivan across the Kansas prairie while trying to outrun the noise in my own mind and the sorrow of all that was changing. I didn't need more productivity. I needed a different kind of attention.
In a red barn, I built a small anchorhold inspired by medieval anchoresses like Julian of Norwich. I entered it to be still and discover what remained when everything unnecessary fell away.
Behind that closed door, I found that solitude is not avoidance. It is presence.
Through tumbleweeds, fossils, snow geese, and the slow return of carrion to soil, the prairie became a teacher, offering lessons in surrender, trust, and the quiet art of becoming.
This book is an invitation to sacred solitude-not as an escape from the world, but as a way of returning to it with deeper attention.
You only need a door.
The willingness to close it.
And the courage to return changed.
Author: Angela Müller
Publisher: Folde Press
Published: 09/27/2026
Pages: 156
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.36d
ISBN13: 9798994987612
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Christian Living | Spiritual Growth
- Nature | Essays
- Religion | Mysticism
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