The Dance of the Big Hunger - Couverture souple

Van Rooyen, Smuts

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798860690042

Editeur : Independently published, 2023

Synopsis

The following chapters are a collection of essays and poems that cover a range of theological reflections, biblical expositions, pastoral counseling, and personal experiences. I confess they are not planted like a formal palace garden with structured glory. Rather, they are like a wild field, dense with orange poppies and blue lupins scattered about, with no designated path to follow into their beauty. Unfortunately, this is how my mind works. Hopefully, the essays will provide the reader with insight and courage for living. But my greater aspiration is that somehow our longing to find one another may be fulfilled and that we may continue to pursue the unsearchable riches of Christ.

Many astute readers will notice that the author comes oddly packaged. He is a child of the Enlightenment who values reason and science, but he is also a card-carrying Romantic who takes feelings seriously and finds reason and science alone unable to provide meaning for his life. It is my conviction that a mind stuck in a quagmire of limited thought (or even truth) can only be nudged into renewal by significant emotional events. Feelings are crucial to life! Therefore, kindly expect in these pages a sweep of passion from explosive anger to the joy of personal resurrection in Christ. My desire is that people will hear echoes of the divine voice, not only in the expressions of love and faith herein but also in the anger, depression, and confusion. Maybe the common yearning we all feel will prompt us to let love in and find a way forward together. I hold my face up high in God’s refreshing rain.
—Smuts van Rooyen

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798860690042
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 230
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