![]() ![]() It is infused with bruised, loving and confused humanity. The most staunch of atheists would find inspiration and, if I may use the hackneyed phrase, life lessons in its pages. If I had a teacher like Ã? Tuama, I might have kept my soul's wagon hitched to Jesus, instead of switching to Buddha. ![]() The author's Christianity is a more inclusive, learned and subtler version than the one I grew up with. ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. In particular, it features careful stories of welcoming parts of life that are often unwelcome. Interweaving everyday stories with analysis, gospel reflections with mindfulness, and Celtic spirituality with poetry, this book explores the practice of welcoming as a spiritual discipline. "Hello," he said, welcoming people locked in a room of fear to a place of deep encounter encounter with themselves, with their fear, with each other, and with the incarnate one in their midst. He does not chide or admonish instead he says "Peace be with you," which, in the Aramaic of his day, was simply a greeting. The fourth gospel tells of Jesus arriving in the room where the disciples are gathered, full of fear, on Easter Sunday. There's an old Irish proverb: "It is in the shelter of each other that the people live." This book applies ideas of shelter and welcome to journeys of life, using poetry, story, biblical reflection, and prose to open up gentle ways of living well in a troubled world. ![]() A Christian pathway into mindfulness, using the gospels, poetry, and storytelling ![]()
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