Godyssey

A Postmodern Spiritual Adventure in the Lord

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Author: M. Elizabeth Kessler ISBN: 9781462842858
Publisher: Xlibris US Publication: October 10, 2008
Imprint: Xlibris US Language: English
Author: M. Elizabeth Kessler
ISBN: 9781462842858
Publisher: Xlibris US
Publication: October 10, 2008
Imprint: Xlibris US
Language: English

Anyone who had their corporate coming-of-age during the "live-for-success/look-out-for-number-one" heyday of the 70s and 80s will nostalgically delight and find renewal of spirit in this book by a onetime Yuppie "reclaimed" by her Lord. Like many of her generation who found themselves caught up in consumerist values and careerist lifestyles, the author experienced a sense of estrangement from her own soul...sparking a search for "redemption" that will touch the heart of the most jaded worldling.

A spiritual adventure with a cosmopolitan twist, Godyssey seeks to help the spiritually disenfranchised rediscover that Lord whose gentle "wooing" they still sense within some recess of the soul, and to recover those Christian ideals they had lost touch with in their pursuit of success. By presenting Christ as a kind of "mentor" in the art of successful living, this book provides much-needed shepherding to those left spiritually stranded by their immersion in America's recent corporate and cultural milieu.

CONTENTS

Foreword.........................................................................................................................9

I Strange Gods.....................................................................................................13
In servitude to the self

II The Pearl of Great Price....................................................................................25
A seduction of the soul

III Coming Home....................................................................................................33
God's gentle politics of persuasion and conversion

IV The Good Life....................................................................................................71
A work of art from the canvas of the everyday

V The Greatest of These.......................................................................................95
Life's highest calling

VI Getting Along...................................................................................................123
Grace through gritted teeth

VII The Second Mile..............................................................................................149
The art of "Good Samaritanship"

VIII A Journal of the Winds....................................................................................179
God's potluck providence

IX Crooked Lines..................................................................................................199
The poetry of pain

Afterword.......................................................................................................................221

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Anyone who had their corporate coming-of-age during the "live-for-success/look-out-for-number-one" heyday of the 70s and 80s will nostalgically delight and find renewal of spirit in this book by a onetime Yuppie "reclaimed" by her Lord. Like many of her generation who found themselves caught up in consumerist values and careerist lifestyles, the author experienced a sense of estrangement from her own soul...sparking a search for "redemption" that will touch the heart of the most jaded worldling.

A spiritual adventure with a cosmopolitan twist, Godyssey seeks to help the spiritually disenfranchised rediscover that Lord whose gentle "wooing" they still sense within some recess of the soul, and to recover those Christian ideals they had lost touch with in their pursuit of success. By presenting Christ as a kind of "mentor" in the art of successful living, this book provides much-needed shepherding to those left spiritually stranded by their immersion in America's recent corporate and cultural milieu.

CONTENTS

Foreword.........................................................................................................................9

I Strange Gods.....................................................................................................13
In servitude to the self

II The Pearl of Great Price....................................................................................25
A seduction of the soul

III Coming Home....................................................................................................33
God's gentle politics of persuasion and conversion

IV The Good Life....................................................................................................71
A work of art from the canvas of the everyday

V The Greatest of These.......................................................................................95
Life's highest calling

VI Getting Along...................................................................................................123
Grace through gritted teeth

VII The Second Mile..............................................................................................149
The art of "Good Samaritanship"

VIII A Journal of the Winds....................................................................................179
God's potluck providence

IX Crooked Lines..................................................................................................199
The poetry of pain

Afterword.......................................................................................................................221

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