Juanita called it ‘The Crash.’
Her counselor labeled it ‘a major depressive episode.’ Others called it a nervous breakdown. On the spiritual front, it was a dark night of the soul.
This experience landed Juanita, a busy pastor, mother, and community leader, in bed. When everything in her life finally came to a stop, she found that she had to learn to be—with herself and with God—all over again.
If you are longing for a trustworthy companion through your dark days, this book is here for you. Each chapter includes life-giving spiritual practices to help you discover your own new ways of being.
قائمة المحتويات
Foreword: Tina Knowles Lawson
1 The Stress of Living in a Do-Do-Do World
2 Who Am I?
INTERLUDE: AN ODE TO THE PRODIGAL BROTHER
3 The Hollow Bunny Rules
4 Perfectionism and the Good Girl
INTERLUDE: A FAMILY’S DILEMMA—REFLECTIONS OF RYAN AND RUDY
5 Could I Just Hit Bottom Already?
6 Finding My Being
INTERLUDE: DOING . . . DOING . . . DONE!
7 Getting Free of My Notions
8 What’s Anger Got to Do with It?
INTERLUDE: DEPRESSION’S WARNING SIGNS
9 Letting Go of Judgment
10 Claiming a New Identity
11 Have-to Versus Want-To
INTERLUDE: HIKING A MOUNTAIN
12 Skydiving
13 Silence: The Place of Being
14 It’s the Thoughts That Count
15 Doing . . . Doing . . . Undone
16 It’s All Grace
Acknowledgments
Notes
عن المؤلف
Juanita Campbell Rasmus is a speaker, writer, spiritual director, and contemplative. The author of Learning to Be, she copastors the St. John’s United Methodist Church in downtown Houston with her husband, Rudy. Juanita has served as a member of the board of directors of Renovaré and she cofounded Bread of Life, Inc., a nonprofit corporation, with Rudy in 1992.
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