About the Book
What experiences are you thankful for?
The question is deceptively simple. But when Linda Knebel Pruden asked it, she found herself on a spiritual quest spanning a hundred years of American history. Reaching beyond memoir, Linda looks to her parents' and grandparents' lives to uncover the roots of the problems that surface again and again in her own life.
She finds tangled knots of stubbornness, mental illness, and determined self-sufficiency, but also great faith and unspoken depths of love. Triggering memories with the recipes of her immigrant heritage, she learns to appreciate both the triumphs and the losses that shaped her life, even decades before her birth.
Join her in listening for the truths that call to us again and again in our lives, and in celebrating everything we have to learn from and teach each other.
The question is deceptively simple. But when Linda Knebel Pruden asked it, she found herself on a spiritual quest spanning a hundred years of American history. Reaching beyond memoir, Linda looks to her parents' and grandparents' lives to uncover the roots of the problems that surface again and again in her own life.
She finds tangled knots of stubbornness, mental illness, and determined self-sufficiency, but also great faith and unspoken depths of love. Triggering memories with the recipes of her immigrant heritage, she learns to appreciate both the triumphs and the losses that shaped her life, even decades before her birth.
Join her in listening for the truths that call to us again and again in our lives, and in celebrating everything we have to learn from and teach each other.
More about Reflections on a Changing Family:
Reflections on a Changing Family: A Recipe Book of Life is organized differently than most books. The story unfolds in two ways. Linda's early experiences, as well as those of her parents, are recorded in the nineteen chapters, each of which contains recipes integral to the events of the story. Within the Reflections located at the end of each chapter, Linda reveals nineteen divine truths discovered while writing her story. The Reflections are sequential and show Linda's gradual awakening to spirit. The stories converge in the Epilogue where Linda also discusses how food can act as a powerful catalyst for spiritual growth. Linda's intent is that readers benefit from the untangling of her life to realize the beauty hidden in their own.
About the Author
Linda with her oldest grand daughter, Emily
Linda Knebel Pruden Wife and mother of three children, Linda is a popular public speaker and author of five teacher manuals. Obtaining her B.S. and M.S. degrees from Purdue University in speech and language pathology, Linda works as a speech pathologist in the St. Paul public schools. She has won numerous awards throughout her career, the most prestigious being runner up to Texas Teacher of the Year in 1989. This is Linda’s first book for the general public.