title: Sacred Companions Sacred Community: Reflections with Clare of Assisi
author:  Megan Don 
description: Megan Don, from New Zealand, is the author of Falling Into the Arms of God: Meditations with Teresa of Avila, winner of the Ashton Wylie/New Zealand PEN Society of Authors Award. She is a spiritual counselor and teaches retreats based on the Mystical Pathway. Megan, herself a mystic pilgrim, leads Pilgrimages to Assisi, Italy. She currently lives in Portland, Maine. www.mysticpeace.com
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  **Chapter One**
  
  HONORIA GOODHAM was in church as usual. At the age of eighteen, she sometimes
  felt that most of her young life had been spent on her knees in church. Her
  parents were very religious. She had been with them to matins, and now it was
  evensong with the dark night shrouding the village outside and the wind
  whistling mournfully down from the Yorkshire moors and making the tall candles
  on the altar flicker and dance. Shadows like the demons that had just entered
  Honoria's life danced up the lime-washed wal