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To Pause at the Threshold
"A threshold is a sacred thing," goes the traditional saying of ancient wisdom. In some corners of the earth, in some traditional cultures, and in monastic life, this is still remembered. But in our fast-paced modern world, this wisdom is often lost on us. It is important for us to remember the significance of the threshold. While it is certainly true that thresholds mark...more
Paperback, Large Print, 112 pages
Published
July 1st 2004
by Morehouse Publishing
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In our current culture, we usually rush through threshold moments - those borders between past and future, life transitions. We don't pause and reflect; we don't celebrate or mark those passages. But borderlands are meant to be explored, and thresholds are meant to be encountered and processed.
This little book is a powerful punch.
Esther de Waal looks at what it is like to live in actual “border country,” the Welsh countryside with its “slower rhythms” and “earth-linked textures,” and explores th...more
This little book is a powerful punch.
Esther de Waal looks at what it is like to live in actual “border country,” the Welsh countryside with its “slower rhythms” and “earth-linked textures,” and explores th...more
An absolutely wonderful take on transition and rhythms of life. de Wall explores physical boundaries of locatedness, seasons, and light and dark all for the sake of creating moments of sacred in times of transition and change. She suggests we allow the natural rhythms of the land to shape our movement of personal seasons and experiencing change with the environment. In the closing chapter, de Wall encourages us to be courageous and embrace ambiguity explaining that the comfort and discomfort of...more
Nan Mein
A very powerful little book for those times when we are crossing thresholds in our lives.
i think i will keep rereading this for the rest of my life. i have finished it. yes, but it has not left my bedside table. nor will it. for quite sometime.
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