Everyday God
Subtitle: the spirit of the ordinary
By: Paula Gooder
Edition: Fortress Press edition.
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 139
ISBN-13: 9781451498059
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Spiritual life; Christianity; Vie spirituelle; Christianisme
Description: The best-selling writer Paula Gooder continues her exploration of the Christian year, with its different seasons and moods and the varying messages they convey. Here, she explores the longest period of the liturgical year, ordinary time--thirty-three weeks where no great dramas occur. We live in a culture that revels in the special, the extraordinary, the new, the unusual. This can relegate the ordinary life to a bland "in-between-ness" as we look for the next excitement or novelty. This is a tendency that affects the church as much as wider culture as it seeks new ways of doing the familiar old things and reinventing itself. Yet, "the ordinary" is the very essence of life. The point of special occasions is not to lift us out of humdrum existence but to embed us more powerfully in ordinary day-to-day life. We need to learn how to live ordinary life in an extraordinary way. In "Everyday God', Paula Gooder explores how to do this through meditations on thirty-three biblical texts reflecting on how God breaks into everyday life, transforming it into the most extraordinary existence possible. (Back cover).
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Reflections on the importance of being ordinary; title: Part 1. Ordinary people. On turning aside; title: Unsung heroes; title: Part 2. Ordinary God. An everyday God; title: An ordinary kingdom; title: Part 3. Living extraordinary ordinary lives. The call to extraordinariness; title: Glimpsing glory.