--
While sojourning in France, Henri Nouwen, the world-famous spiritual writer, noted that his writing was making little progress, as though his spirit ‘were suffering from cramp'. Frustrated and disheartened, he decided to visit Lourdes to permit ‘his anguished heart to seek repose'. This brief journal is the fruit of three days' stay in that centre of great spirituality. The resulting text is characteristic of Nouwen's writings: personal, simple and profoundly inspiring. Nouwen links his reflections to the principle symbols he encountered at Lourdes: the water, a large rock, the grotto and the basilica. This text will resonate within all those in search of meaning, enabling them to find their own inner sanctuary, that place where Christ dwells within us all.