1. Seeing the creature against the horizon of the creator : the bigger picture
2. Visible, perceptible, effective proximities of God : being blessed into life
3. The torment of insufficiency of everything attainable : loneliness, longing, and sexuality
4. Receive, give thanks, break, share : the Eucharist as the sustenance of daily life
5. A good fireplace, a warm house, moral companionship, and sacramental sex : the sacrament of marriage
6. From womb to womb, mother to mother : mortality, death, resurrection
7. Walking justly and not just piously : the call to social justice
8. Walking honestly and finding our souls among the little ones : the call to humility
9. Structure and soul, anger and grief, men and women : the river of gender
10. A love beyond our understanding : the wild, unconditional love of God
11. Poets, imagination, the mother tongue, and religious language : paschal imagination
12. Praying in life and letting life pray through us : a vespers for the world.