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Good enough : 40ish devotionals for a life of imperfection / Kate Bowler and Jessica Richie.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Convergent, [2022]Description: xviii, 243 pages ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780593193686
  • 0593193687
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 155.2/32 23
LOC classification:
  • BV4597.58.P47 B69 2022
Contents:
Preface -- Regula -- Buoyed by the absurd -- Mourning a future self -- Shiny things -- Building a good day -- Small things, great love -- Asleep on the job -- When good things become burdens -- The foundation -- When you are exhausted -- Happy enough -- Right after it's over -- Needing rules at all -- For the exiles -- The tragedy Olympics -- The bad thing -- Hopping off the treadmill -- Hello, Goodbye -- No reason whatsoever -- Becoming real -- #Blessed -- Loving what is -- Being honest about disappointment -- Kindness boomerangs -- Give up already -- Say potato -- To my body -- Mediocrity for the win -- The burden of love -- Refuge -- Bottling magic -- Gondola prayers -- The cost of caring -- The reality-show gospel -- When words fail -- 2:00 a.m./2:00 p.m. -- The in-between -- Too few sparrows -- Bright hope -- A good gardener -- A good enough blessing.
Summary: "A compassionate, intelligent, and wry series of Christian daily reflections on learning to live with imperfection in a culture of self-help that promotes endless progress, from the New York Times bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason and the executive producer of the Everything Happens podcast. In Kate Bowler's bestselling memoir Everything Happens for a Reason, readers witnessed the ways she, as a divinity-school professor and young mother, reckoned with a Stage IV cancer diagnosis; in her follow-up memoir, No Cure for Being Human, she unflinchingly and winsomely unpacked the ways that life becomes both hard and beautiful when we abandon certainty and the illusion of control in our lives. Now, in their first-ever devotional book, Kate Bowler and co-author Jessica Richie offer 40ish short spiritual reflections on how we can make sense of life not as a pursuit of endless progress but as a chronic condition. This book is a companion for when you want to stop feeling guilty that you're not living your best life now. Written gently and with humor, Good Enough is permission for all those who need to hear that there are some things you can fix-and some things you can't. And it's okay that life isn't always better. In these gorgeously written reflections, Bowler and Richie offer fresh imagination for how truth, beauty, and meaning can be discovered amid the chaos of life. Their words celebrate kindness, honesty, and interdependence in a culture that rewards ruthless individualism and blind optimism. Ultimately, in these pages we can rest in the encouragement to strive for what is possible today-while recognizing that though we are finite, the life in front of us can be beautiful"-- Provided by publisher.
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"A compassionate, intelligent, and wry series of Christian daily reflections on learning to live with imperfection in a culture of self-help that promotes endless progress, from the New York Times bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason and the executive producer of the Everything Happens podcast. In Kate Bowler's bestselling memoir Everything Happens for a Reason, readers witnessed the ways she, as a divinity-school professor and young mother, reckoned with a Stage IV cancer diagnosis; in her follow-up memoir, No Cure for Being Human, she unflinchingly and winsomely unpacked the ways that life becomes both hard and beautiful when we abandon certainty and the illusion of control in our lives. Now, in their first-ever devotional book, Kate Bowler and co-author Jessica Richie offer 40ish short spiritual reflections on how we can make sense of life not as a pursuit of endless progress but as a chronic condition. This book is a companion for when you want to stop feeling guilty that you're not living your best life now. Written gently and with humor, Good Enough is permission for all those who need to hear that there are some things you can fix-and some things you can't. And it's okay that life isn't always better. In these gorgeously written reflections, Bowler and Richie offer fresh imagination for how truth, beauty, and meaning can be discovered amid the chaos of life. Their words celebrate kindness, honesty, and interdependence in a culture that rewards ruthless individualism and blind optimism. Ultimately, in these pages we can rest in the encouragement to strive for what is possible today-while recognizing that though we are finite, the life in front of us can be beautiful"-- Provided by publisher.

Preface -- Regula -- Buoyed by the absurd -- Mourning a future self -- Shiny things -- Building a good day -- Small things, great love -- Asleep on the job -- When good things become burdens -- The foundation -- When you are exhausted -- Happy enough -- Right after it's over -- Needing rules at all -- For the exiles -- The tragedy Olympics -- The bad thing -- Hopping off the treadmill -- Hello, Goodbye -- No reason whatsoever -- Becoming real -- #Blessed -- Loving what is -- Being honest about disappointment -- Kindness boomerangs -- Give up already -- Say potato -- To my body -- Mediocrity for the win -- The burden of love -- Refuge -- Bottling magic -- Gondola prayers -- The cost of caring -- The reality-show gospel -- When words fail -- 2:00 a.m./2:00 p.m. -- The in-between -- Too few sparrows -- Bright hope -- A good gardener -- A good enough blessing.

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