The Music in the Bread

A rule is broken—and Mercy finds she is alone. Has everyone left, or has she left them? Struggling through her confusion she finds answers by letting go of distorted truths, awakening to a glimpse of who she is.

Twelve-year-old Mercy defies her father's rule not to walk barefoot at home until he's refinished all the old floors. The splinter that sticks deep in her toe as a result becomes more painful as she navigates anger, guilt, and alienation. . . having withheld the truth from him. During Easter Vigil, through the healing of story-telling, tea-drinking, and a sail in the moonlight, we (along with she) are reminded of the limitless joy in creating from our hearts—which only happens when we love without conditions

Ray Boswell has been called a visionary, story- teller, teacher, and artist. For nearly forty years he has shared his unique merging of creativity and spirituality with thousands of adults and children. Ray has inspired participants at churches, retreat centers, schools, prisons, hospitals, and corporate events. He shares a three-thousand-square-foot pottery studio with his son Andy in the Hudson Valley. He is blessed to reside in a multigenerational home with his wife and two of their three children, his daughter-in-law, and his granddaughter.