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What people are saying about Ordinary Losses

Vinita Hampton Wright, author of Velma Still Cooks in Leeway, Simple Acts of Moving Forward, and The Winter Seeking
“Stanford’s voice is gentle and true. She stills her soul to dwell in, and understand, the details that define a life. And she discovers—and helps the reader discover—how moments themselves are sacraments.”

LaVonne Neff, in Publishers Weekly
“With a poet’s touch, Stanford writes of absence and longing, hope and expectation.”

Michael Card, musician and songwriter
“Elisa Stanford has shown us that everything matters, is worth remembering: the colors of carpets, smells and tastes of our childhood. She has shown us that our memories can be a wonderful place to return to and inhabit, and that going there can heal and even have a hand in redeeming us. She has shown us that what we thought might have been the emptiest moment was, in fact, full to overflowing with the stuff of memories.”

Lisa Ann Cockrel, at FaithfulReader.com
“Rarely does a book come along that so beautifully explores the everyday heartaches that shape us into people capable of joy.”

Lauren Winner, author of Girl Meets God and Mudhouse Sabbath
“Ordinary Losses cultivates the sense…that something will be missing until we reach eternity. It places us in the topography of in-between and not-yet, the Christian posture of anticipation. It is, finally, about Advent, about expectation, and it is good company for those of us, pilgrims, who are called to wait.”