Foreword / by Jennifer Fulwiler -- Little earthquakes -- Together, alone -- The brink -- We are in France -- Malade -- My faith is not equal to my situation -- On holding on and letting go -- Prostrate in the mud -- Gethsemane -- Raise you up -- The dark night of the soul -- Water, fire, and a cave -- Lowered through the roof -- Outward signs, inward grace -- Nothing a bottle of wine can't solve -- The beloved -- Crêpes au chocolat -- In the footsteps of Bernadette -- Sealed with the gifts -- Life wins -- Our Lady of Lourdes -- The other brink -- What I have seen and heard -- Rise, take up your mat -- Chosen, blessed, broken, given

"In this book, the author recounts her experience bringing her profoundly disabled son to Lourdes, where she and her family found community and healing"--