FLY WHILE YOU STILL HAVE WINGS

Live your life fully—there is no easier way. Make your life a work of art—it is enough.

For thirty years, Joyce Rupp has comforted millions with such books as Praying Our Goodbyes and May I Walk You Home. In Fly While You Still Have Wings, she shares the story of her own grief, offering readers both a profile of her mother’s resilient spirit and a voice of compassion for their own experience of loss.  

Joyce Rupp’s mother lived a life filled with hard labour and constant responsibility. Rupp shows how the difficulties of her mother’s early years and family life, including the loss of a twenty-three-year-old son, forged a resilience that guided Hilda Rupp through the illnesses and losses she faced later on. This affectionate profile of their relationship is at the same time an honest self-examination, as Rupp shares the ways she sometimes failed to listen to, accept, and understand her mother in her final years. Rupp’s gentle candor and profound faith illumine this story of a mother and daughter with a universal spirit of hope, reconciliation, and peace.

Joyce Rupp is well known for her work as a writer, retreat leader, spiritual midwife and conference speaker. She is the author of numerous bestselling books, including Prayer Seeds, Out of the ordinary, Seeds of Hope, and Cup of Our Life. She is a member of the Servite (Servants of Mary) community.