Review by JEAN PRINSEN
This is a wonderful book: thoughtful, humble, and encouraging.
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Tell us what you thought about The gift of restlessness
This is a wonderful book: thoughtful, humble, and encouraging.
Title Statement | The gift of restlessness: a spirituality for unsettled seasons / Casey Tygrett. |
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Alternative Title(s) | Spirituality for unsettled seasons |
Author | Tygrett, Casey, 1977- |
Publication | Minneapolis, MN: Broadleaf Books,[2023]©2023 |
Extent of Item | 163 pages ; |
ISBN | 9781506483566 (trade paperback) |
Other Number | pr07216785 |
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. |
Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-163). |
Summary | "No one asks for restless moments. No one wants to feel irritated, unsettled, or stuck. When pressed into restless seasons in our relationships, work, or faith, we feel the hum: You can't go back, but you can't stay here. But what if restlessness is normal, healthy, and even holy? What if spiritual questions are not problems to be solved but invitations of the soul? And what if spiritual maturity inspires restlessness rather than inoculating us against it? 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. In a culture that values happiness and self-actualization, we often race toward the pat resolution or the quick fix. But in doing so, we miss the subtle gifts of unsettled times. Remaining in restlessness, rather than rushing toward the next job, vacation, or partner, moves us deeper into the life of the Spirit and our own belovedness."-- |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Agitation (Psychology) |
Agitation (Psychology)--Religious aspects | |
Agitation (Psychology)--Religious aspects--Christianity | |
Anxiety--Religious aspects--Christianity | |
Christian life | |
Spirituality | |
Worry--Religious aspects--Christianity |