Books like Tend the Light (Heartsong Presents #295) by Susannah Hayden

Sixteen‑year‑old Ian travels to Cape Hatteras to claim an inheritance from his estranged grandmother, only to uncover a dangerous mystery surrounding her death.

A lighthouse keeper in Washington's rocky coast finds hope and love when a shipwreck survivor, pregnant and penniless, arrives on his lonely shore, forcing him to confront the secrets of his past.

Percy Morgan arrives at a small lumber camp, hiding a mysterious past while seeking a sense of self‑worth. With the help of the town’s women and the affection of Doctor Joshua Wells, she confronts her pain and embraces healing.

After a shipwreck, orphan Star Bright arrives at Light Island and revitalizes the lonely lighthouse keeper’s life, showing that kindness and companionship can flourish even after tragedy.

"When I begin to write, I open myself and wait. And when I turn toward an inner spiritual awareness, I open myself and wait." With that insight, Pat Schneider invites readers to contemplate their lives through spiritual observation and exploratory writing. In seventeen concise thematic chapters that include meditations on topics such as fear, prayer, forgiveness, social justice, and death, How the Light Gets In gracefully guides readers through the philosophical and spiritual questions that face everyone in the course of meeting life's challenges. Praised as a "fuse lighter" by author Julia Cameron and "the wisest teacher of writing I know" by the celebrated writing guru Peter Elbow, Pat Schneider has lived a life of writing and teaching, passion and compassion. With How the Light Gets In, she delves beyond the typical "how-to's" of writing to offer an extended rumination on two inner paths, and how they can run as one. Schneider's book is distinct from the many others in the popular spirituality and creative writing genre by virtue of its approach, using one's lived experience--including the experience of writing--as a springboard for expressing the often ineffable events that define everyday life. Her belief that writing about one's own life leads to greater consciousness, satisfaction, and wisdom energizes the book and carries the reader elegantly through difficult topics. As Schneider writes, "All of us live in relation to mystery, and becoming conscious of that relationship can be a beginning point for a spiritual practice--whether we experience mystery in nature, in ecstatic love, in the eyes of our children, our friends, the animals we love, or in more strange experiences of intuition, synchronicity, or prescience."--