In the Stillness You Will Know: Exploring the Paths of Our Ancient Belonging

by Barbara Fiand

Overview

Popular spirituality writer Barbara Fiand is back with a moving book inspired by the death of her dearest friend and soul mate. Shadowed by grief, Fiand uses her friend's untimely passing as the starting point for ponderings about the nature of hope and the solace that comes from the beauty of nature speaking to us.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780824526504
Publisher:	Crossroad Publishing Company
Publication date:	09/28/2002
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	5.38(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.52(d)

Table of Contents

	Preface	9
1.	Do This in Memory of Me	21
	Clare's Passing	21
	Beacons of Light	24
	The Silence of Love	26
	Coming Full Circle	28
	The Meaning of Sacrament	31
	The Emmaus Experience	34
	Thoughts and Questions for Mediation	38
2.	Love One Another as I Have Loved You	42
	Questions	43
	No Greater Love	47
	Redemption	49
	Quantum Pointers to Deepen the Vision	51
	The Mysticism of Creation	53
	Moral Consequences	59
	Conclusion and Personal Appropriation	63
	Thoughts and Questions for Meditation	67
3.	Let This Mind Be in You	72
	On Being and Doing	74
	Science and the Ministry of Being	79
	Expanding the Meaning of Community and Call	84
	Transcending Past Boundaries	87
	Challenges to Theology	91
	Thoughts and Questions for Meditation	93
4.	Through a Glass Darkly	98
	Two Stories	100
	Approaching the Holy	108
	Standing in the Tension	113
	Honoring the Silence	118
	Thoughts and Questions for Meditation	123
5.	For I Have Set You an Example	126
	The Foot-washing	128
	The New Covenant	132
	Radical Application	140
	Thoughts and Questions for Meditation	145
6.	Blessed Are Those Who Mourn	149
	Going into the Pain	150
	Does God Suffer?	153
	Pain and the Holy One	156
	Sacrificial Love	159
	Conclusion and Personal Application	162
	Thoughts and Questions for Meditation	165
	Notes	169