Brookville Books, Sea Cliff, New York
2012
Sister Janice Edwards states in her introduction that Wild Dancing is “not a how-to book” about contemplative prayer nor is it an attempt to define contemplation. Rather, she tells stories and relates experiences of encounters with God’s “Untamed Love” with the hope that the reader will be aroused to greater awareness of Love’s wild dancing within and around us. The experiences she relates include her own journey through destructive and debilitating brain surgery and healing from childhood sexual abuse. In addition, she shares the experiences of survivors of 9-11 and some of her spiritual directees. With these stories, she weaves a cosmic theological understanding of the oneness of God’s Untamed Love that informs and energizes a sense of justice and peace.
Sister Janice’s style is down to earth as she invites us to celebrate and join the Wild Dancing with Untamed Love. Each chapter ends with questions for reflection about our own experiences so that we might know deeply and expansively that “All shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of things shall be well.”
I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in contemplating God’s incredible love.
-Karen Covey Moore