A Modernization and Condensation of Madame Guyon's Classic AutobiographyFew Christians have experienced the depth of prayer as profoundly as Jeanne-Marie Guyon (1648-1717), a beautiful, wealthy French woman whose writings, mediations, and wisdom have remained a treasured legacy of the church. Hers is the story of a troubled childhood, a forced marriage at a young age, and widowhood at the age of twenty-seven with three children. For the rest of her life she suffered persecution and endured imprisonments at the hands of the church, primarily because she believed all Christians can have a rich interior life of prayer.This edited, condensed, and updated edition of her autobiography--written from a lonely cell where she was imprisoned for her stand for Christ--reintroduces the power of this great woman of faith and the joy she found in the midst of grief and pain.The remarkable story of one woman's heaven-sent resolve to glorify God amid debilitating suffering and persecution.