Hallelujah Anyway: Reclaiming Mercy and Forgiveness - a slim, powerful book about the ways in which we harden against life and the ways in which we can soften through forgiveness, kindness, and all those splendors of spirit which, in denying others, we deny ourselves.

In a testament to how trauma muffles our senses and sensitivities, she considers our greatest stumbling block to mercy and forgiveness. Echoing the beautiful opening lines of Naomi Shihab Nye's poem, "Kindness" - "Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, / you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing". 

Reflecting on the tumultuous and traumatic environment of her childhood home, she adds: "I can be a hero in my storm, which is where I found a sense of values as a child, as the tense little EMT in a damaged family. Crisis self-centered fear, and saving people were home for me, with a wet bar serving up adrenaline. The quiet, tranquil room of just being was boarded up. But love reaches out and reaches out and reaches out. It is staggering that it is always giving me another chance, another day, another over and over.