Muddy Mysticism is a literary treasure in the library of Feminist Mysticism. Unlike many books exploring the feminist nature of God, Natalie's book weaves her own heartaches in and out of her exploration of mysticism in the everyday world. Muddy Mysticism takes you to the depths of the soul, and into the grit of the world, while reading like a poem. As you read, you journey through Natalie's experiences as a wife, mother, and activist making her way through the most mundane parts of existence, and it is in these places Natalie whispers to you, that you too might find God.--I read Natalie's book during one of the darkest seasons of my life. Her manuscript accompanied me to doctors appointments and hospital rooms. Not only was reading the book like having an old friend with me in the most terrifying of spaces, it also encouraged me to find God in places I would have never otherwise looked. In my own broken body, in the falling snow outside my hospital window, in the scarred hands of the medical techs who moved my body in and out of bed, and in the painful first steps with a hospital walker.Natalie says it best as she introduces her book:"Perhaps we do not have to find God as much as know God in our own hunger, in the reciprocity between nature and our bodies. If God is, then God is with us. All of us. We may not always know it. But we may spend our lives trying. And whatever happens or doesn't , it is still worth trying."--This book is truly a comfort to anyone who has walked into the shadows asking, "is God with us"'? I hope anyone who has asked that question, will receive the blessing of this book accompanying them on the journey.