Finding Livelihood: A Progress of Work and Leisure - Couverture souple

Nordenson, Nancy J

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1733684603 ISBN 13 : 9781733684606

Editeur : Metaxu Press, 2019

Synopsis

What do you want to be when you grow up? The answers were our childhood dreams. The reality of adulthood is that what we are and do now is what we became. Finding Livelihood is a book about work for grown-ups. It's about not just the work we thought we wanted but the work we found and the work that found us. It's also about the work we have lost.

At once a shrewd challenge of Buechner's assertion that "the place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet" and also a lyrical journey to the place where labor and love meet, Finding Livelihood explores the tensions between the planned life and the given, between desire and need, between aspirations and limits. Through story, collage, and juxtaposition, Finding Livelihood invites you to consider work in its many facets. Who gets to decide if our work is "good"? How do we deal with forces and routines that leave us longing for escape? How do questions about money and meaning change when you are holding a pink slip in your hand? How are we transformed when our current work becomes part of a spiritual journey that encompasses all of life? Drawing from thinkers as diverse as St. Aquinas, Josef Pieper, and Simone Weil, Nordenson affirms the doctrine of Imago Dei and brings it into the real world of work: a world full of brokenness and hope, of dead-end jobs and live-saving interventions, of daily bread and transcendent meaning. In the midst of it all, we find our livelihood.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Nancy J. Nordenson is an author and essayist whose work has appeared in Harvard Divinity Bulletin, Indiana Review, Comment, and in other publications and anthologies. Her essays have earned multiple notable recognitions in the Best American Essays and Best Spiritual Writing anthologies, and Pushcart Prize nominations. Nancy holds an MFA in creative writing from Seattle Pacific University, and by day, she earns her living as a medical writer. Nancy and her husband live in Minneapolis. For more information, visit www.nancynordenson.com and www.thelivelihoodproject.com.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Metaxu Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1733684603
• ISBN 13: 9781733684606
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 262
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible