In "Absence Makes the Heart," Heather Burtman reflects upon her experience staying at a monastery over her twenty-seventh birthday and the interwoven nature of absence and presence in light of love and faith.
Heather Burtman is a recent graduate of Yale Divinity School. Her hometown is Eau Claire, WI and she currently lives in Boston. She was raised somewhere between non-denominational and Baptist and has more recently attended an Episcopal Church. She is still searching for a church home and exploring what it means to hold space for both doubt and faith. She has previously been published in Image Journal and in the New York Times Modern Love section.
To read her essay, visit clerestorymag.com
Follow us on:
Instagram: @clerestorymag
Twitter: @clerestorymag
Facebook: facebook.com/clerestorymag
Support our work: