The Emptiness Of Our Hands

Author : phyllis cole-dai; james murray
Publisher : Author House
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004-09-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781452055558

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the emptiness of our hands by phyllis cole-dai; james murray Pdf

During Lent and Holy Week, 1999, Phyllis Cole-Dai and James Murray lived voluntarily on the streets of Columbus, Ohio, the nation’s fifteenth largest city. They didn’t go out on the streets to satisfy idle curiosity, or to experience a strange new world. They didn’t go out to find answers to questions, solutions to problems. They didn’t go out to save anyone, or to hand out donations of food and blankets. They went out with one primary aim: to be as present as possible to everyone they met—to love their neighbor as themselves. Doing so, they were reminded just how difficult the practice of compassion can be, especially because of personal judgments, assumptions, fears and desires, all habits of mind that harden one’s regard for and behavior toward other people. The Emptiness of Our Hands: A Lent Lived on the Streets is a meditative narrative accompanied by nearly thirty black and white photographs, most of them shot by James using crude pinhole cameras that he constructed from trash. This book will thrust you out the door of your comfortable life, straight into the unknown. What can happen to a person without a home? Indeed, what might happen to you?

Author : James Murray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9790692080855

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The Emptiness of Our Hands by James Murray Pdf

Who would you be without a home?In 1999 Phyllis Cole-Dai and James Murray lived by choice on the streets of Columbus, Ohio, the fifteenth-largest city in the United States. They went to the streets with a single intention: to be as present as possible to everyone they met, offering them sustained and nonjudgmental attention. Such attention is the heart of compassion.This book chronicles their streets experiences. It will thrust you out the door of your comfortable life, straight into the unknown. It will force you to confront what might happen to you, and who you might become, if suddenly you had no home. The meditative narrative is accompanied by pinhole photographs shot by James using cameras he constructed from trash.This is the third edition of the book, lightly edited. Though recounting events that occurred in 1999, The Emptiness of Our Hands remains as relevant today as ever.An "eye-opening" and "life-changing" read!Read this book on its own or in the company of Practicing Presence: Insights from the Streets, which Phyllis wrote on the tenth anniversary of her time on the streets. Take your reading slow, perhaps one chapter per day, so you can absorb and reflect.If you happen to be Christian, you might consider using this book and Practicing Presence as companion resources during Lent and Holy Week, which served as a backdrop for Phyllis and James's experience. But you don't need to be a Christian to take this stumbling journey into practicing mindfulness on the streets. Just allow these forty-seven days to be for you what they were for Phyllis and James: a deep embrace of core values that human beings around the world have held in common for millennia.[308 pp., including front and back matter]

Author : Charles Hoffacker
Publisher : Cowley Publications
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2003-04-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781461732990

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Matter of Life and Death by Charles Hoffacker Pdf

With the sensitivity born of time and experience, Charles Hoffacker presents an unusually warm and caring approach to preaching at a pivotal transition in human life, one which goes to the very heart of the Good News of Jesus Christ. Hoffacker teaches the reader, whether a seasoned preacher or a novice homilist, to find the key to unlocking the mystery of Jesus' promise of eternal life in a mortal life now ended.

Author : Steven Brust,Skyler White
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466889736

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The Skill of Our Hands by Steven Brust,Skyler White Pdf

"Secret societies, immortality, murder mysteries and Las Vegas all in one book? Shut up and take my money." —John Scalzi on The Incrementalists The Incrementalists are a secret society of two hundred people—an unbroken lineage reaching back forty thousand years. They cheat death, share lives and memories, and communicate with one another across nations and time. They have an epic history, an almost magical memory, and a very modest mission: to make the world better, a little bit at a time. Now Phil, the Incrementalist whose personality has stayed stable through more incarnations than anyone else’s, has been shot dead. They’ll bring him back—but first they need to know what happened. Their investigation will lead down unexpected paths in Arizona, and bring them up against corruption, racism, and brutality in high and low places alike. But the key may lay in one of Phil’s previous lives, in “Bleeding Kansas” in the late 1850s—and the fate of the passionate abolitionist we remember as John Brown. Steven Brust and Skyler White's The Skill of Our Hands is the thrilling and thought-provoking follow-up to their critically acclaimed The Incrementalists. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Nancy Guthrie
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781496439697

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God Does His Best Work with Empty by Nancy Guthrie Pdf

It's amazing how heavy the weight of emptiness can feel, how much room it can take up in our souls, how much pain can be caused by something that isn't even there.But while we may see the emptiness of our lives as our greatest problem, that's not how God sees it. When God looks into the empty places of our lives, He sees His greatest opportunity. God does His best work in the emptiness of our . . . Insatiable craving for things that don't satisfy Relational disappointments and loneliness Frustrated search for purpose and meaning Relentless desire for comfort and security Ongoing struggle to live with loss and unfulfilled dreams Join Nancy Guthrie in discovering why emptiness has never been, and never will be, a problem to God. As Nancy pulls back the curtain on God's work to fill up emptiness as revealed throughout the Bible, you'll experience page after page of grace and hope that your emptiness can and will be filled. You'll begin to see that God really does do His best work with empty--as he fills it with Himself.

Author : Ruth Ozeki
Publisher : Text Publishing
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781922459541

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The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki Pdf

If you let it—if you listen—a book could change your life.

Author : Louis E. Murzone
Publisher : Tate Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781602479302

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His Counsel Shall Stand by Louis E. Murzone Pdf

Are you tired of faking your life? A painful and confusing personal life conflicting with what God offers can only be explained by His counsel. In His Counsel Shall Stand, author Louis E. Murzone taps into the destined glory of the believer's relationship with Jesus. By comparing the relationship of Christ and the Church to that of a marital relationship, the author presents an intimate portrayal of God's love and introduces how to transform your reality into His expectation. Each stage of the relationship process-attraction, courtship, marriage, and divorce-is used to identify God's promises to the believer. He progressively walks you through the blessings and struggles encountered when following God's purpose. This book explains how a wilderness experience, that 'fertile womb of promise', is really the key by which you are able to 'lock into the channel which feeds you God's truth.' His Counsel Shall Stand will leave you 'smothered in grace' as it affirms, encourages, and challenges you to grow in God's love.

Author : John King
Publisher : Verso
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2000-09-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 185984233X

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Magical Reels by John King Pdf

On Latin American cinema.

Author : O.T. Babalola
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781984581570

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From the Emptiness by O.T. Babalola Pdf

In these fantasy tales, we see a convergence between multiple dimensions where the world of two different existences faces adversaries that challenge their continued future. The book tells the story ‘From the Emptiness’ where entities were more drawn to the dark than the light. Light, in its highest authorities, summons time to seize it from existence. Also told is the story of ‘The Austere Time of the Crystal’ where the lives of young mortals are rattled and attacked by a greater power.

Author : Fredrika Bremer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590113361

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Fredrika Bremer's works [tr. by M. Howitt]. by Fredrika Bremer Pdf

Author : Goce Smilevski
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101603611

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Freud's Sister by Goce Smilevski Pdf

The award-winning international sensation that poses the question: Was Sigmund Freud responsible for the death of his sister in a Nazi concentration camp? The boy in her memories who strokes her with the apple, who whispers to her the fairy tale, who gives her the knife, is her brother Sigmund. Vienna, 1938: With the Nazis closing in, Sigmund Freud is granted an exit visa and allowed to list the names of people to take with him. He lists his doctor and maids, his dog, and his wife's sister, but not any of his own sisters. The four Freud sisters are shuttled to the Terezín concentration camp, while their brother lives out his last days in London. Based on a true story, this searing novel gives haunting voice to Freud's sister Adolfina—“the sweetest and best of my sisters”—a gifted, sensitive woman who was spurned by her mother and never married. A witness to her brother's genius and to the cultural and artistic splendor of Vienna in the early twentieth century, she aspired to a life few women of her time could attain. From Adolfina's closeness with her brother in childhood, to her love for a fellow student, to her time with Gustav Klimt's sister in a Vienna psychiatric hospital, to her dream of one day living in Venice and having a family, Freud's Sister imagines with astonishing insight and deep feeling the life of a woman lost to the shadows of history.

Author : Peter Jalesh
Publisher : BookRix
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783730920268

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The Little Orange Book on Zen of the Realization Realm by Peter Jalesh Pdf

There are two kinds of knowing the world: by accumulating knowledge through reasoning and learning of the phenomenal reality and of the mental reality ( the world of karma), which is called conventional wisdom; or by using the insight and become aware of and also experience the ultimate truth (jñana- the emptiness), which is called the ultimate wisdom. The conventional wisdom is considered dualistic, in the sense that the mind knowledge does not reflect the reality in its full truthfulness, namely the relationship between the mind-world and the matter-world is two-faced, truthful on one hand and false on the other. The most important thing when living the ultimate truth, even in its impure states of nirvana (samadhy, satori) is that one has the revelation that the whole universe is an infinite harmonious whole in which every particle, every object and every being are interrelated, interconnected and unified in love.

Author : Seung Chul Kim
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666735567

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The Center is Everywhere by Seung Chul Kim Pdf

The most crucial task facing Christian theology today is the furtherance of dialogue with the religious traditions of the world great and small and with the scientific worldview. The starting premise of this book is that the two dialogues need to be carried on simultaneously and equiprimordially, despite the risk of undermining the traditional foundations of the Christian faith. The author argues that such a crisis can be averted by breaking through its core and opening faith to an experience of nothingness. He draws on the Buddhist philosophy of the Kyoto School philosopher Nishitani Keiji to propose new paths toward a theology of religious pluralism grounded in a Huayan Buddhist vision of reality.

Author : James H. Kurt
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781481755023

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Blessed Guilt by James H. Kurt Pdf

Here is the story of a man on the way of conversion. Though vaguely autobiographical, it is not intended to portray the particulars of any life but to address the journey all souls undergo in moving from the ways of the world – which lead to destruction – to the path of salvation wrought in Christ’s blood. The key step on this journey (to which one must continually return) is life-giving repentance: one must recognize one’s own complicity in the crucifixion of Jesus, and turn to Him for forgiveness. The Son of God has come to save all men from sin, but we cannot find His cleansing blood upon our souls if we fail to see first His blood upon our hands. Only in this way does our guilt become blessed. I pray His blood upon you, my brother, my sister...

Author : Maria Harris
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307573582

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Jubilee Time by Maria Harris Pdf

In keeping with the bestselling When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple, and Gail Sheehy's New Passages, Jubilee Time celebrates the freedom, opportunities, and power of older women, who are too often maligned in our youth-obsessed culture. Based on the Jubilee passage in Leviticus--"You shall hallow the fiftieth year. It shall be a Jubilee for you"--this practical and philosophical book helps women assess what values and beliefs they want to carry forward into the second half of life. A Jubilarian herself, Harris draws on her own experience and cites others--including May Sarton, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, M.F.K. Fisher, Florida Scott-Maxwell, Doris Grumbach, as well as more than one hundred "ordinary" women--to reflect the variety and vitality of this unheralded community. In lyrical prose punctuated by exercises and meditations, she invites readers to rest and reflect, stop and take stock, celebrate and cultivate the rich rewards of a mature spirituality.