In this book, Experiencing God in a time of Crisis, Sarah Bachelard suggests a way that can help us go through those critical times in our lives, moments of profound loss, grief and fear in which our frameworks of sense seem to collapse and no longer enable us to convey meaning to overwhelming events or even to life itself. Crisis, however, may be seen as a call or opportunity to reshape our identity and open us to our deepest possibilities.

The practice of meditation and contemplative living, she says, may help us endure and integrate such turning-point experiences, and bring our life and identity into a deeper wholeness. The practice helps us to let go of our old ways and enter the unknown realm of poverty of spirit. We find freedom and a new sense of being alive, and with a deepened capacity to be with and to love others.