John Main started the first Christian meditation center in 1975. Laurence Freeman has carried on his work and is the director of the World Community for Christian Meditation. His letters to members of this group focus on a variety of fascinating themes including the nature of spiritual friendship, holiness, clarity, wounded healers, and the punctuality of the Spirit.

All discipleship, says Freeman, is about superceding the ego but not destroying it. A handy tool for this discipline is the mantra — "a small act of kindness, both to ourselves and to the world. It is a brushstroke of stillness, a look of pure attention, a joyful fast, a way of praying in the name of Jesus."

The author believes that annoying delays or missed connections provide us with graceful moments to meditate. Or as he puts it, "We can discover how all of the trivial or routine or irksome activities of daily life have an invisible spiritual significance." Freeman also reframes time by referring to an Early Father who once said, "There is no such thing as a delay with the Holy Spirit." All things happen in just the right moment on God's timetable.

In the closing letter, Freeman talks about the pilgrimage of the two hundred Christian meditators and their Buddhist friends to Bodhgaya, India, where they shared three days of meditation and dialogue with the Dalai Lama. This kind of sharing is a sign of all the good things to come in the name of interreligious cooperation.