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Light When It Comes: Trusting Joy, Facing Darkness, and Seeing God in Everything

Light When It Comes: Trusting Joy, Facing Darkness, and Seeing God in Everything

by Chris Anderson (Author)

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Synopsis

We all have moments of joy, moments that move us somehow, spiritual moments that we can't quite put a finger on. But then we rush on and soon forget. In this book Chris Anderson shares such moments from his own life in order to inspire readers who are seeking, hurting, doubting, or searching. Drawing on an ancient prayer tradition, the examen of conscience, Anderson relates personal anecdotes, short scenes, and stories in a collage style that stimulates readers to reflect on their own lives. He shows how the examen can serve as a simple but powerful way to remember moments of light, of struggle, of joy. And however small or fleeting these moments are, in them God is calling and meeting us.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 181
 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Published: 30 Sep 2016
ISBN 10: 0802873995
ISBN 13: 9780802873996

Media Reviews
Paula Huston
author ofSimplifying the Soul and One Ordinary Sunday
Light When It Comesis both a literary gem and a cup of blessing for all who long to experience God's presence.

Thomas Lynch
author ofThe Undertaking and The Sin-Eater
An age that has fashioned faith into bludgeon and cudgel, and traded community for self-righteous indignation, might better be illumined byLight When It Comesand by the grace of Anderson's vital, studious witness. The ties of belief that bind us, each to the other, needn't be rope enough to hang, cruel lash or rein or tether. Rather, lifeline, safe mooring, the holy, miraculous lowering of our hobbled, heart-wrecked selves to the place of our redeeming.

Lawrence S. Cunningham
author ofThe Seven Deadly Sins and Things Seen and Unseen
Chris Anderson offers us a triune gift wrapped into a whole: beautiful prose, pastoral experience, and an authentic believing eye turned to our world. This volume is a grace to be received with abundant thanks.
Paula Huston
--author of Simplifying the Soul and One Ordinary Sunday
Light When It Comes is both a literary gem and a cup of blessing for all who long to experience God's presence.

Thomas Lynch
--author of The Undertaking and The Sin-Eater
An age that has fashioned faith into bludgeon and cudgel, and traded community for self-righteous indignation, might better be illumined by Light When It Comes and by the grace of Anderson's vital, studious witness. The ties of belief that bind us, each to the other, needn't be rope enough to hang, cruel lash or rein or tether. Rather, lifeline, safe mooring, the holy, miraculous lowering of our hobbled, heart-wrecked selves to the place of our redeeming.

Lawrence S. Cunningham
--author of The Seven Deadly Sins and Things Seen and Unseen
Chris Anderson offers us a triune gift wrapped into a whole: beautiful prose, pastoral experience, and an authentic believing eye turned to our world. This volume is a grace to be received with abundant thanks.

Methodist Recorder
Here is a book which offers us tools, a method and a motive, for engaging with something unfamiliar in order to find ourselves more fully aware of the familiar presence of God.
Author Bio
Chris Anderson is Professor of English at Oregon State University, a poet, a retreat leader, and a Catholic deacon. His other books include The Next Thing Always Belongs.