The present volume contains Adrienne von Speyr’s meditations on 22 parables of Jesus, most of them drawn from the Gospel of Matthew. Adrienne’s concern, as always, is not with academic exegesis, but with believing contemplation. Here, her focus is on how “words from everyday life” become vehicles for the self-revelation of the Trinity in the person of the incarnate Son. As she herself writes, “behind every human word there stands the living Word of the Father, the Son who, both believing and seeing, expresses the Father.”