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The gift of restlessness : a spirituality for unsettled seasons
Title:
The gift of restlessness : a spirituality for unsettled seasons
Author:
Tygrett, Casey, author.
ISBN:
9781506483566
Personal Author:
Physical Description:
163 pages ; 22 cm
Contents:
Between the beasts and the angels -- Where do I belong? -- What am I here for? -- Is there enough? -- Can things be mended? -- Will we be protected? -- Can we be rescued? -- The prayer and the questions.
Abstract:
Spiritual director Casey Tygrett upends the notion that restlessness is a sign that we must move up, move on, or move out. Working within the prayerful tradition of writers like Henri Nouwen and Barbara Brown Taylor, Tygrett turns over our innermost questions and holds them up to the light. Where do I belong? What am I here for? Is there enough? And he finds a surprising alignment of these restless questions with the prayer that Jesus taught us to pray. In that ancient prayer's pleas for belonging, purpose, sustenance, mending, protection, and rescue, we find freedom to ask basic human questions and permission to befriend our longings. Each chapter offers profoundly spiritual practices that, when taken together, create a spirituality sturdy enough for our unsettled seasons.