Fly While You Still Have Wings

"Every page of Joyce Rupp's beautiful book is filled with practical wisdom. By meditating on the rich life of her own mother, Rupp not only shares with us timeless and life-changing lessons, but also reminds us that holiness always makes its home in humanity, and that saints are everywhere. I loved this book!"
James Martin, S.J.

Author of Jesus: A Pilgrimage

"Joyce Rupp’s memoir of her mother Hilda is beautiful, honest, and graced with astonishing insights into what it means to be a daughter, a mother, a human being. Her account of how this resilient woman raised eight children on an Iowa farm at first reminded me of Tim Russert’s loving memoir of his father–the stories are that good. But when I got to Joyce’s tender journey with her mother through the process of dying I could not help but think of C. S. Lewis’s A Grief Observed–the book is that good. When I finished reading, I put the book down and could think of nothing other than what I had just read. Fly While You Still Have Wings is Joyce Rupp’s best book ever, a total original, and I would not be surprised if it became a classic.”

Michael Leach
Author of Why Stay Catholic?

"This beautiful memoir of her mother displays the remarkable gifts that have earned Joyce Rupp so many loyal readers: engaging storytelling, moving poetry, personal experiences shared with honesty and insight, and depictions of grace breaking into the most ordinary human events. In Joyce’s deft telling, her mother’s story becomes not only the inspiring portrait of a strong woman, but also a primer on the mother-daughter relationship and the meaning of love and limits, suffering and courage, grief and healing. Her book’s most important contribution may be the wisdom she offers on how to meet the challenges and discover the blessings of giving and receiving care in life’s later years."

Kathleen Fischer
Author of Winter Grace: Spirituality and Aging

“Joyce Rupp’s best book yet. How many of us would like to pay tribute to our mothers by acknowledging the lessons learned from them that still guide us, and reflect on what we wished we had done in her later years and failed to do, or what we did do and wished we had not? Joyce does this beautifully and becomes our teacher in this honest memoir.”
Trish Herbert
Author of Journeywell: A Guide to Quality Aging

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