Forty spirited women tell of everyday challenges, life's most profound joys, and its deepest sorrows-echoes of your own experiences, told sometimes in shouts, often in whispers, but always in voices luminous with faith and rich in wisdom. Find comfort, strength and common ground in these stories of finding a balance; work and play; motherhood; at the altar; illness, pain, and healing; grief and sorrow; and lessons of the heart.