This book is about transformation spiritual, life-changing transformation available to you right now. It is divided into four sections Inner Work, Holy Ground, Sabbath, and Community and Vocation and uses stories of simple life experiences to explore the ways in which we experience the transformative process. Readers of this book also will learn to appreciate how, when we are transformed, the world is transformed. Isn't that the Gospel, after all?
Amy Sander Montanez, D.Min, is a licensed professional counselor, licensed marriage & family therapist and spiritual director practicing for more than twenty years. She has a private psychotherapy practice in Columbia, South Carolina where she specializes in working with clergy and seminarians. A teacher in several spiritual direction training programs, one of her greatest joys in life is seeing people grow into their wisdom and strength, living out their God-given potential. Amy has won six National Polly Bond Awards for Special Achievement in Church Communication. She lives in Columbia, South Carolina.
“You can’t read far into this small book before you realize that you are a companion of a skillful counselor and a wise spiritual friend, deeply in love with God, with others, and with the whole creation. You feel like she is right there talking to you, sharing from authentic experience informed by years and years of study and reflection.”—From the Foreword by E. Glenn Hinson, Author of Baptist Spirituality: A Call for Renewed Attentiveness to God
“I’ve read many books about the spiritual journey, but none offers the liberating pathway of Moment to Moment. Amy Montanez, skilled counselor and therapist, stands before you as if on a spiritual playground, proclaiming, ‘on your mark, get set, go,’ inviting you to embrace your life joyfully as the key to God-given wholeness. I’ll be revisiting its pages time and time again; I know you will as well.”—The Rev. Michael R. Sullivan, Rector, Holy Innocents, Atlanta, Author of Windows into the Soul and Windows into the Light
“Amy Montanez’s sharp powers of observation lead her to poignant encounters with the holy in a variety of settings including a computer store, a city bank, a street in her neighborhood, and dreams in the night. This wonderful book will widen your perception of God's activity in the world and pique your imagination for how God aggressively pursues us all, even in the most unlikely of moments.” —Frank G. Honeycutt, Author of The Truth Shall Make You Odd: Speaking with Pastoral Integrity in Awkward Situations
