Author: Francis Dorff, O. Praem. Publisher: Sunstone Press ISBN: 1632930927 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 226
Book Description
As someone who has been guiding people through the catacombs of their own lives for decades, Francis Dorff, O. Praem. is uniquely qualified to tell stories that evoke personal experiences of the treasures residing within each of us. Readers may recognize their own lives reflected in his description of: being “a stranger in a strange land,” wondering where to turn when a door to one’s “promised land” closes in one’s face, exploring intimations of a Loving Mystery beneath the surface of all of life, embracing parts of our life that we have been neglecting, and creatively getting to know our own deepest self. This book will encourage those of us who are yearning to live more peacefully with others to see how we can “meditatively journey together to the underground place within us that is deeper than all our differences.” Those who are feeling stuck may find some help in Fr. Dorff’s insight into how “widening the scope of my attentiveness has a lot to do with my being able eventually to take a creative next step.” And everyone can be inspired by the author’s “experiment with loving” and how many different forms this loving can take over the course of a long, rich life. Here is a personal invitation to learn how to live with the ongoing tensions between solitude and community, meditation and ministry, “getting it all together” and letting it all fall apart—as well as being a misfit and a mystic on a deeply personal pilgrimage.
Author: Michelle DeRusha Publisher: ISBN: 1601425325 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 242
Book Description
Offers the author's account of the loss of her Catholic faith, how acknowledging her unbelief allowed her to truly begin her spiritual journey, and how she came to see the possibility that faith, uncertainty, and doubt can coexist.
Author: Donna Gaines Publisher: Rutgers University Press ISBN: 9780813540542 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 422
Book Description
Gaines is a self-described "bourbon-guzzling, pill-popping, penis-addicted, workaholic, tattooed Jew" with a Ph.D. and a pistol permit. "A Misfit's Manifesto" is about living with the contradictions. This is how she did it, and found God in all the unlikely places--like Ramones songs.
Author: Marcia Ford Publisher: Jossey-Bass ISBN: 9780787963996 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 216
Book Description
"In a sense, of course, all believers are strangers in a strange land— some, as they say, are just stranger than others. That would be my friends and me." Like Marcia Ford, most of us have felt, at one time or another, as if we are on a different wavelength from the rest of the world. Try as we might, we don't fit in— not in society and certainly not in the church. Despite our best efforts at camouflage, despite our hopes that we may finally have found a group of kindred believers, people still look at us funny. But if we stop to think about it, we're not in bad company. After all, Jesus was something of a misfit in His day, too. In this funny, fresh, and frank memoir, Marcia Ford chronicles her spiritual journey as a self-proclaimed misfit, telling the engaging story of one woman's efforts to fit into both society and the Christian church. Candid about her shortcomings and her sneaking suspicion that she may really be a square peg in a round hole, Marcia discovers that it is precisely because of her uniqueness that she is able to claim God's abundant grace and come to experience God more fully.
Author: Marcia Ford Publisher: Jossey-Bass ISBN: 9780787964009 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 0
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Meditations for Misfits offers a new look at familiar passages of the Bible; each of the insightful weekly readings uses Scripture, a quote or excerpt, and a prayer to underscore the intrinsic value and uniqueness of misfits. This fresh approach to understanding the spiritual journey offers an awareness of God's activity in each life, a new vision for life in the community of faith, and the hope for greater self-acceptance.
Author: Francis Dorff Publisher: Paulist Press ISBN: 9780809104963 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 110
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A simple, practical primer on the process, the character and the practice of meditative writing as a way of living more soulfully. For anyone interested in creative writing, self-discovery and personal and spiritual renewal.
Author: S. K. Ali Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1534442766 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 336
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"Janna Yusuf and her friends are planning for her brother's nikah. But what started as a simple marriage ceremony is turning into the biggest event of the summer-and a chance for Janna to finally reveal her crush...or so she thinks"--
Author: Christiana N. Peterson Publisher: MennoMedia, Inc. ISBN: 151380166X Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 288
Book Description
“A lively memoir mixed with short biographies of appealing religious outcasts.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY With untested ideals and a thirst for adventure, Christiana Peterson and her family moved to an intentional Christian farming community in the rural Midwest. It sounded like a simple and faithful way to follow Jesus, not to mention a great place to raise kids. In Mystics and Misfits, Peterson discovers that community life is never really simple and that she needs resources beyond her own to weather the anxiety and exhaustion of trying to save a dying farm and a floundering congregation. She turns to Christian mystics like Francis of Assisi, Simone Weil, and Dorothy Day to find sustenance for the everyday struggles and unique hardships of community life. With a contemplative’s spirit and poet’s eye, Peterson leads readers into an encounter with the God of the wild mystics and the weird misfits.
Author: Saskia Lightstar Publisher: Hay House, Inc ISBN: 1788174038 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 205
Book Description
You've survived cancer treatment - now what? The Cancer Misfit is here to support you when doctors, friends and family have gone 'back to normal' and assumed you can do the same. It's a life raft to help you navigate life after cancer treatment; to help you live better, think better and feel better and show you how to embrace your new future. After the treatment stops it can be difficult to know how to move on, and many survivors feel stuck in limbo between who they used to be before the diagnosis and who they are today. This is how Saskia felt when she was told the treatment was over: she felt like a Cancer Misfit, recovered physically, but mentally and emotionally still healing. Now, Saskia shares the tools that enabled her to become the happiest version of herself she has ever known. In these pages, you'll find the truth - that your best life and most beautiful self was not the person you were before your cancer diagnosis, but the person you are today; that you've become even more powerful because of the hell you went through, and that the greatest chapter of your life is here and now. The Cancer Misfit will introduce you to the person you've become as a consequence of the trauma you endured and help you to embrace your new life after treatment; a life full of confidence, happiness and peace.
Author: Francis Dorff, O. Praem.
Author: Michelle DeRusha
Author: Donna Gaines
Author: Marcia Ford
Author: Marcia Ford
Author: Francis Dorff
Author: S. K. Ali
Author: Christiana N. Peterson
Author: Jason J. Stellman
Author: Saskia Lightstar