"In this wonderful book...[Spangler] shows how, through the everyday challenges and joys of parenting, of creating and sustaining family, we are given the opportunity to participate in the deeper mystery: the incarnation and emergence of our children's spirits and personalities."- Seattle New Times

Writer, mystic, and father of four, David Spangler understands that the birth of a child is a spiritually significant event-a mystical experience. There is a feeling of magic in the parent/child relationship that relies on intuition, total presence, and impulses that come from the soul. The acclaimed author of The Call shares his stories from the trenches, blessings from the day-in and day-out of child-rearing, and encourages us, with grace, wit and common sense, toward the kind of parenting that brings to the world creative, honest, enlightened, and independent kids.

"[Spangler's] words are full of heart, wisdom, sensitivity, and discernment."-Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul