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About this book
Connect with God, memories, and your deepest self through the simple stuff of life. In this indelible work of spiritual formation, Episcopal priest and author Laurie M. Brock invites readers to contemplate ordinary things. How might the sacred astonish us by showing up in everyday items?
Rocks. Cast iron skillets. Portraits. Calendars. Shoes. The regular objects of our lives can be conduits of God's love and grace--if we notice them. What if, instead of ignoring the things we use every day, we let them testify? What might our things say?
In Souvenirs of the Holy, Brock helps us see everyday items not merely as objects gathering dust but as keepsakes from the literal and spiritual journeys we have taken. With pastoral presence, humor, and poetic grace, she helps us tap into the unseen realms underneath the things we take for granted: a coin from our father holding complex yearnings for love, the scar on our arm speaking of survival, the quilt on the bed holding scraps we've inherited, the garden shears reminding us that pruning brings forth new life.
Join Brock on a journey of spiritual direction through everyday things, and discover the sacred in the ordinary. Reflect on the items in your life that connect you to a God who dwells within and beyond the material world. With creative ideas for praying with objects, this book is ideal for book clubs, church circles, and small groups seeking deeper, more tangible spiritual experiences.
Holy things can be found outside of church buildings. What objects in your own life speak of usefulness? Of survival? Of guidance and redemption? Deepen your sense of God's enduring love through this spiritual field guide to all things sacred.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1—Bread Crumbs: Things That Speak of Worth
- 2—Cast Iron: Things That Speak of Seasoning
- 3—Coins: Things That Speak of Scarcity
- 4—Scars: Things That Speak of Healing
- 5—Sidelines: Things That Speak of Liminality
- 6—Roads: Things That Speak of Usefulness
- 7—Calendars: Things That Speak of Accounts
- 8—Shoes: Things That Speak of Vulnerability
- 9—Rocks: Things That Remember
- 10—Garden Shears: Things That Speak of Pruning
- 11—Boxes: Things That Speak of Perhaps
- 12—Portraits: Things That Speak of Melancholy
- 13—Covered Bridges: Things That Speak of Meandering
- 14—Reins: Things That Guide
- 15—Quilts: Things That Speak of Redemption
- Conclusion
- Praying and Meditating with Your Souvenirs of the Holy
- Acknowledgments
- Notes