Borrowing Wonder : Christmas Poems and Reflections to Open the Heart

Shea, John

Liturgical Press（2024/10発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 88 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780814688847
• DDC分類 242.33

Full Description

Award-winning author and storyteller, John Shea shares a poetic word of hope to help us "make it" this Christmas season. 
 
Whether your "it" is the overwhelming pressure to get it all done, the task of just getting through it, or simply being present this holiday season, award-winning author John Shea urges us to slow down during the rush of the season and open our hearts and minds to how the Spirit is calling us to renewal.
 
By focusing on theological, scriptural, and liturgical themes—as well as the familiar sights, sounds, and happenings of the season, Shea's poems in Borrowing Wonder become the lens through which we experience the spirit of the season reflected in our own lives. By connecting soul to season, Shea hopes that we will allow the memories and moments of these reflections to illuminate the light that shines in the darkness. Christmas will come. You will make it.

Contents

Contents
     Introduction
Making It   xi
     Poems and Reflections
Borrowing Wonder   1
Covid Christmas   3
The Christmas Kaleidoscope   7
Christmas Shopping Teamwork   13
Tears of Treasure   17
Epiphanies   19
Fleeing Herod   21
Christmas Babysitting   25
People of Goodwill   29
Without Logs   31
Finding the Child   33
Christmas Neighborhood   37 
Heart Dwelling at Christmas   39
Defiant Christmas Trees   43
Every Life Has Its Beat   47
Christmas Social Action   49
The Christmas Lobby   51
Making Room for Angels   53
The Firstborn   57
Christmas Grace   61
Without a Christmas Gift   63
Singing the Christmas Canticle of the Eternal Word   65
The Mirror of Scrooge   69
A Christmas Creed   73