“As the title suggests, experiencing the darkness can open us to the light. If you’re looking for light in the dark, I believe you will find it here, as I did.”

—Parker J. Palmer, author of Let Your Life Speak, A Hidden Wholeness, and Healing the Heart of Democracy

Nothing Is Wasted:

A Spiritual Journey

from Fear and Judgment

to Grace and Mystery

“The journey from a childhood haunted by fear of the Rapture and its abandonment of the unsaved, takes the reader through many shifts of worldviews“ —Mary Moore Easter, author of The Body of the World (poems), and The Way She Wants to Get There: Telling on Myself (memoir)

© 2025 Marilyn J. Benson