From his vantage point at the Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Conyers, Georgia, Trappist James Stephen Behrens looks back at events that span the years from his childhood in New Jersey through his two decades as a parish priest and his journey to the cloistered life. In this delightful collection of stories he remembers family and friends, store clerks and cleaning ladies, the famous and the all-but-forgotten. He weaves the everyday and the unusual into the fabric of his portraits, always seeing and sharing with his readers the presence of God and the lingering memory of grace.