Opening the Window Sabbath Meditations

Name: Opening the Window Sabbath Meditations
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ISBN: 9780872331488

ISBN-10: 0872331482

ISBN-13: 9780872331488

Edition: 2011

Authors: Leaf Seligman

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Why do we do what we do? What happens as a result? How do we make sense of, and find meaning in, our lives and in the world that contains us? How do we render wholeness out of brokenness, creating mosaics of beauty and functionality from the rent pieces of our lives? This collection of Sabbath meditations invites readers to inhabit the questions with intention and joy. With a pastor's sensibility, a writer's lyricism, and a generous heart, Leaf Seligman invokes poetry, thinking from diverse spiritual traditions, and stories from her own walk through life to grapple with enduring religious themes and contemporary challenges. It is the preacher's responsibility to be of use, to choose words…

Book details

List price: $16.50
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Bauhan Publishing LLC
Publication date: 9/2/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Introduction


Keep Knocking


Truth on my Lips


The Virtue of Disappointment


Reclaiming Sin


Why Universalism Still Matters


Of Shoes and the Sacred


Lessons from Haiti


Food Democracy


A Meditation on Memorial Day


The Joy Inside


The Call to Joy


What is Worth Pursuing?


On Being Found


The Days of Awe


Roses of Guadalupe


Communion


Under the Tent


On Death and Being


Come To The Window


Holy Disruption


To Be of Use


Cultivating Faith


With New Eyes and Ears


Of Advent and Uncertainty


Little Boxes


Another Way


Evolution of Ideas


Look To See Who Is There


An Act of the Recklessly Generous Heart


Beyond Acceptance into Welcome


Freedom from Constraint


The Burden of Cain


What is Next?


Rising Again


The Missing Years


Wandering in the Wilderness


Afterword: Some Thoughts on Preaching


Acknowledgments