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The gift of hard things : finding grace in unexpected places / Mark Yaconelli.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yaconelli, Mark, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grace (Theology).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (154 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Saint Joseph's University Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Society teaches us to have everything under control, and we tend to think that this can be true even of our spiritual lives. Master storyteller and spiritual director Mark Yaconelli offers a narrative journey through ways in which disappointments have turned into gifts. In these pages are a wealth of spiritual practices that will help us find grace in unexpected places.
- Contents:
- Introduction : the alchemy of grace
- Maddalena : the gift of burnout
- Prayer service disaster : the gift of disappointment
- Idiots : the gift of difficult people
- Graduation day : the gift of brokenness
- Women in black : the gift of anger
- Initiation : the gift of powerlessness
- The ungrieved grief : the gift of loss
- The accident : the gift of suffering
- The dark night : the gift of darkness
- Butterflies : the gift of death.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8308-9919-7
- OCLC:
- 944957928
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