A beautiful book for devotional use during the ecumenical Season of Creation (starting 1 September every year) – during which Christians around the world undertake 34 days of prayer and reflection on the environment and how natural occurrences and human activity affect the world in which we live. John Mann has written 34 wise and insightful reflections, each inspired by a quotation from spiritual writers Simone Weil and Teilhard de Chardin. Each daily reading is prefaced with an extract from the Bible, and ends with a short prayer.