Mining for Meaning addresses our culture's struggle to find life's meaning and purpose and provides insights into how such meaning and purpose may be found in our primary relationships, namely, with God, One Another, and Nature. Like rich veins of gold, of these relationships i filled with precious insights and inspiration for living a meaningful life. However, these veins require intentional effort to extract their value. The author identifies helpful "tools" with which to do the work and describes how these can be applied to the task.

Readers of Mining for Meaning will learn how others have found meaning and purpose and will be inspired to exercise the disciplines for themselves. Dr. Bailiff believes that life is designed to be meaningful and hopes that this book may prove to be a helpful resource for every reader.