- Paperback: 176 pages
- Publisher: Circle Books; Reprint edition (24 Jun 2011)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1846945631
- ISBN-13: 978-1846945632
- Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 13.7 x 1 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,093,711 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Here are splendid call stories from dedicated, gifted women who serve and lead the church. Each explores her faith journey in personal, sometimes intimate fashion-the quotidian and the mystical mix in the routine and the transcendent moments beyond time. These accounts of faith, hope, and love summon all of us to deeper life in the Spirit. --(Louis B. Weeks, President Emeritus of Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond and Charlotte)
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How does God call us? The answers are as different as we are. Sometimes God summons us through the Church and sometimes in spite of the Church. In the depths of loss and confusion God speaks to us, beckoning us to follow an unexplored path. While we are heading in one direction, God surprises us with an undeniable invitation to go another way. Wide Open Spaces includes essays by women who have experienced and responded to God's call in all of these ways. The ministers and Christian educators whose stories fill this book testify to God's grace in the midst of their lives as single people in family-centered contexts, as women whose callings also include parenthood and marriage, and as those who the Church refuses to fully accept. Discrimination, harassment and homophobia pierce the narratives in this book. Yet this is not a book about defeat. It is a book about perseverance rooted in Christian faith. Woven through these varied stories is one story: wherever life takes us, God is there, calling us by name.
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Inspiring Stories
27 July 2011
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Open and honest reflections on how life lead theese women to be called to serve God. Wide Open Spaces is a wonderful read, that you can't put down. A small group of women in our church is currently reading this and plan on a class discussion this fall. I think this is a must read for all women of faith.
The call
23 Sep 2011
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This book was excellent. It inspired me to think of things I had not thought of in years, because all of us have a call. I also sent it to my daughter in Jerusalem. Very, very nice ladies.
What's Your Call?
1 Sep 2011
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This group of women, all professionals in the church, were encouraged to "examine their inner landscapes" and put their reflections in writing. What editor Carol Henderson assembled is a group of essays describing each writer's faith journey. They are emotional, heartrending, funny, and honest. They also demonstrate that the path to God is not always direct; there often are detours and wrong turns. But the Holy Spirit straightens them out, and reminds them that the journey is unending. I found each of these lives made engrossing reading. Each writer demonstrates the often difficult ability to put her joys, aspirations, and disappointments into words. At the end of each essay there is a list of prompts for the reader to turn writer, offering the book as a guide for a writing group. I liked reading just one essay at a time, giving me time to mull over the insights I received for that day. If you enjoy reading about what makes another person "tick", this is a good read for you.
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