Fr. Barry's final book invites us to take God's hand

William Connolly in The Practice of Spiritual Direction, published in 1982, Christian spiritual direction is "help given by one believer to another that enables the latter to pay attention to God's personal communication to him or her, to respond to this personally communicating God, to grow in intimacy with this God, and to live out the consequences of the relationship." In God's Great Story and You, Barry directs the reader's attention to God's active presence in the world and the string of invitations for God's peo-1 pie (you and me) to respond to the call I continuously One I can read Barry's book as if sitting with him (and God) on a retreat without ever leaving the comfort of home. [Brenda M. McLaughlin teaches reading and language arts in a public elementary school in Connecticut.