2016, ISBN: 0061144894

[EAN: 9780061144899], Nouveau livre, [SC: 11.72], [PU: Kidd, Sue Monk], "Product DescriptionFrom the bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bees, an inspiring autobiographical account o… More...

[EAN: 9780061144899], Nouveau livre, [SC: 11.72], [PU: Kidd, Sue Monk], "Product DescriptionFrom the bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bees, an inspiring autobiographical account of personal pain, spiritual awakening, and divine grace.Blending her own experience with an intimate grasp of spirituality, Sue Monk Kidd relates the passionate and moving tale of her spiritual crisis, when life seemed to have lost meaning and her longing for a hasty escape from the pain yielded to a discipline of "active waiting." Full of wisdom, poise, and grace, Kidd’s words will encourage us along our spiritual journey, toward becoming who we truly are.Review"A joy to read .Honest and healing." - Alan Jones, dean of Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, and author of Soul MakingAs I read her book, Kidd became a companion. I love having her walk with me on my journey. - Eugene Peterson, author of The MessageFrom the Back CoverFrom the Bestselling Author of The Secret Life of Bees, an Inspiring Autobiographical Account of Personal Pain, Spiritual Awakening, and Divine GraceBlending her own experiences with an intimate grasp of spirituality, Sue Monk Kidd relates the passionate and moving tale of her spiritual crisis, when life seemed to have lost meaning and her longing for a hasty escape from the pain yielded to a discipline of "active waiting." This PLUS edition includes a reader's guide.About the AuthorSue Monk Kidd is the author of the bestselling novels The Secret Life of Bees and The Mermaid Chair, as well as the award-winning The Dance of the Dissident Daughter and God's Joyful Surprise.Excerpt. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.When the Heart WaitsSpiritual Direction for Life's Sacred QuestionsBy Sue Monk Kidd HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.Copyright 2006 Sue Monk KiddAll right reserved.ISBN: 0061144894Chapter OneThe Long Way RoundMidway this way of life we're bound upon,I woke to find myself in a dark wood,Where the right road was wholly lost and gone . . . .It is so bitter it goes nigh to death.-DantePatience is everything.-Rainer Maria RilkeOverhead a thickening of clouds wreathed everything in grayness. It was February, when the earth of South Carolina seems mired in the dregs of winter. I had been walking for miles; I don't know how many. I could feel neither my toes inside my shoes nor the wind on my face. I could feel nothing at all but an intense aching in my soul.For some months I had been lost in a baffling crisis of spirit. Back in the autumn I had awakened to a growing darkness and cacophony, as if something in my depths were crying out. A whole chorus of voices. Orphaned voices. They seemed to speak for all the unlived parts of me, and-they came with a force and dazzle that I couldn't contain. They seemed to explode the boundaries of my existence. I know now that they were the clamor of a new self struggling to be born.Midlife DarknessI was standing on the shifting ground of midlife, having come upon that time in life when one is summoned to an inner transformation, to a crossing over from one identity to another. When change-winds swirl through our lives, especially at midlife, they often call us to undertake a new passage of the spiritual journey that of confronting the lost and counterfeit places within us and releasing our deeper, innermost self-our true self. They call us to come home to ourselves, to become who we really are.That winter of my discontent, I had no real idea of any of this. I was mystified by the inner upheaval I felt. This sort of thing couldn't be happening to me, I told myself. I had already been on an inner spiritual quest-one that had begun eight years earlier with an experience of chest pains and stress. My journey had taught me a more contemplative way of being in the world and had given me the first real centeredness I'd known. Discovering myself loved by God and forging new dimensions of intimacy with God's presence had brought much healing to my fragmented life.I should have remembered, though, that the life of the", Books<

ISBN: 9780061144899

From the bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bees, an inspiring autobiographical account of personal pain, spiritual awakening, and divine grace. Blending her own experience wit… More...

From the bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bees, an inspiring autobiographical account of personal pain, spiritual awakening, and divine grace. Blending her own experience with an intimate grasp of spirituality, Sue Monk Kidd relates the passionate and moving tale of her spiritual crisis, when life seemed to have lost meaning and her longing for a hasty escape from the pain yielded to a discipline of “active waiting.” Full of wisdom, poise, and grace, Kidd’s words will encourage us along our spiritual journey, toward becoming who we truly are. Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Religion,Inspiration>Christian Life-Prayer>Christian Life-Prayer, HarperCollins Publishers Core >1<

2011, ISBN: 9780061144899

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2016, ISBN: 0061144894

[EAN: 9780061144899], Neubuch, [PU: HARPER ONE], RELIGION - INSPIRATIONAL SPIRITUALITY CHRISTIAN LIFE DEVOTIONAL, Über den AutorrnrnSue Monk Kidd is the author of the bestselling nove… More...

[EAN: 9780061144899], Neubuch, [PU: HARPER ONE], RELIGION - INSPIRATIONAL SPIRITUALITY CHRISTIAN LIFE DEVOTIONAL, Über den AutorrnrnSue Monk Kidd is the author of the bestselling novels The Secret Life of Bees and The Mermaid Chair, as well as the award-winning The Dance of the Dissident Daughter and God s Joyful Surpr., Books<

ISBN: 9780061144899

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