Being bread
By: Stephen Muse
Publisher: St. Tikhon's Monastery Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Waymart, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9780990502951
Subjects: Meditations; Christian life; Orthodox Eastern authors
Description: "If, indeed, as Dostoevsky says, 'Beauty will save the world, ' it is because beauty arises only in the presence of love. Without love, there is nothing beautiful. There is nothing valuable. There is nothing meaningful. Meaning arises and transformation occurs through the call and response of personal encounter when we discover a third presence who offers us being-in-relationship that is greater than the determinism and inertia of biological life. The stories and reflections in this volume are offered in celebration of the One who, in surprising ways and unexpected circumstances, becomes the precious and pure gift of our being bread so that we may live the mystery of becoming bread for others. I wish this for all who read this book."--Author's note from back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Harumbai!; title: Rose of sharing; title: Pascha in July; title: Good enough; title: 2:39 AM gloria; title: Snapping turtle lessons; title: Antique prayer; title: Gurus, stars and superheroes; title: The buggy man's spiritual jazz; title: Indian givers and the Holy Trinity; title: Settling the score another way; title: Shark tooth grace; title: Pavanne at day's beginning; title: Not a dog's life; title: Birds on a wire; title: Dia-Logos with the cosmos; title: So fine a dust; title: On being a good husbandman; title: Finding soul food; title: Hunting for life; title: Divine forest liturgy; title: Life at the edge of the world; title: Bread and Jesus prayer in northern California; title: In the garden of the Panaghia; title: Our daily being bread.