This is is not a book of cookie-cut spirituality. It is not a book of answers, nor programmable spiritual growth. This book is a question. An invitation. A beckoning toward movement and allowing your world to be shaken. A fish in a bowl doesn't know that it is wet. Surrounded...
This is is not a book of cookie-cut spirituality. It is not a book of answers, nor programmable spiritual growth. This book is a question. An invitation. A beckoning toward movement and allowing your world to be shaken.
A fish in a bowl doesn't know that it is wet. Surrounded always by its watery environment, it knows no other reality. We, too, suffer the same. Little fishes every one of us. Inescapably shaped by the waters we swim within. Whether we realise it or not, we all inherited a religion, a framework for existence, a container that shapes our world.
Yet, inevitably, there comes a time when the fishbowl cracks, when the safety we knew can no longer contain us, when our world crumbles and the questions arrive. *Woven* dares to put forth that this is not something to be feared, that it may actually be a door beginning to open. A necessary movement in our spiritual and life journey. It is the whisper inside, 'There must be more than this.'
- *Publisher*
A fish in a bowl doesn't know that it is wet. Surrounded always by its watery environment, it knows no other reality. We, too, suffer the same. Little fishes every one of us. We are inescapably shaped in worlds not of our own making. The fishbowl of family. The fishbowl of culture. The fishbowl of church. The fishbowl of faith. Whether we realise it or not we inherit a religion, a framework for existence, a container that fits and shapes our world. A container we demand to be The Truth. Yet, always and inevitably, there comes a time when that fishbowl cracks, when the safety we knew can no longer contain us, when our world crumbles and the questions arrive. But maybe such moments in life and faith are not to be feared. Maybe, a cracked fishbowl is actually an invitation. A beckoning. A necessary movement in our spiritual and life journeys. An opening to `the other.' 'Woven' dares readers to take a fresh look at their life and spirituality, to embrace the ache of dissatisfaction, and to acknowledge the silent voice that says, `There must be more than this.'
This is is not a book of cookie-cut spirituality. It is not a book of answers, nor programmable spiritual growth. This book is a question. An invitation. A beckoning toward movement and allowing your world to be shaken. A fish in a bowl doesn't know that it is wet. Surrounded...
This is is not a book of cookie-cut spirituality. It is not a book of answers, nor programmable spiritual growth. This book is a question. An invitation. A beckoning toward movement and allowing your world to be shaken.
A fish in a bowl doesn't know that it is wet. Surrounded always by its watery environment, it knows no other reality. We, too, suffer the same. Little fishes every one of us. Inescapably shaped by the waters we swim within. Whether we realise it or not, we all inherited a religion, a framework for existence, a container that shapes our world.
Yet, inevitably, there comes a time when the fishbowl cracks, when the safety we knew can no longer contain us, when our world crumbles and the questions arrive. *Woven* dares to put forth that this is not something to be feared, that it may actually be a door beginning to open. A necessary movement in our spiritual and life journey. It is the whisper inside, 'There must be more than this.'
- *Publisher*
A fish in a bowl doesn't know that it is wet. Surrounded always by its watery environment, it knows no other reality. We, too, suffer the same. Little fishes every one of us. We are inescapably shaped in worlds not of our own making. The fishbowl of family. The fishbowl of culture. The fishbowl of church. The fishbowl of faith. Whether we realise it or not we inherit a religion, a framework for existence, a container that fits and shapes our world. A container we demand to be The Truth. Yet, always and inevitably, there comes a time when that fishbowl cracks, when the safety we knew can no longer contain us, when our world crumbles and the questions arrive. But maybe such moments in life and faith are not to be feared. Maybe, a cracked fishbowl is actually an invitation. A beckoning. A necessary movement in our spiritual and life journeys. An opening to `the other.' 'Woven' dares readers to take a fresh look at their life and spirituality, to embrace the ache of dissatisfaction, and to acknowledge the silent voice that says, `There must be more than this.'
This book has been so helpful and comforting on my journey. It helps a person to deal with unraveling and to learn and experience that it is possible to weave a new life and faith after the unraveling.
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I recommend this product
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
5 years ago
A humble and honest journey of faith
This book articulated something deep and tender within my own journey of faith - from an inherited faith, to questioning faith, and re-learning, rediscovering faith. It is a quiet encouragement even as it is a challenge to quest deeper into the heart of God, past theological divisions and polarising issues, to discover the Jesus that saw, knew understood and loved those abandoned and condemned by upright religious folk. Joel sits comfortably with doubt as a valued, necessary, and strengthening aspect of faith, rather than the antithesis it is so often portrayed as. This book is a journey, not for the fainthearted, from which you will emerge profoundly changed by the story carried within it's pages. What a gift to the Christian faith. Thank you Joel, for your candid, humbled, vulnerable story.
