Few Christians have experienced the depth of prayer as profoundly as Jeanne-Marie Guyon (1648-1717), a beautiful, wealthy French woman whose writings, mediations, and wisdom have remained a treasured legacy of the church. Hers is the story of a troubled childhood, a forced marriage at a young age, and widowhood at the age of twenty-seven with three children. For the rest of her life she suffered persecution and endured imprisonments at the hands of the church, primarily because she believed all Christians can have a rich interior life of prayer.
This edited, condensed, and updated edition of her autobiography written from a lonely cell where she was imprisoned for her stand for Christ reintroduces the power of this great woman of faith and the joy she found in the midst of grief and pain.
The remarkable story of one woman's heaven-sent resolve to glorify God amid debilitating suffering and persecution.
