Invitation to Tears Read-Along #3

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Hello Everyone!

In this podcast focusing on last week’s reading (Chapter 1), I’ve focused on one confidential question and a few of my own favorite quotes and practices. You can listen to the 20 minute podcast here.

As you dive into this week’s reading (Chapter 2), be sure to consider the questions on how God and pain, God and suffering are challenging. What questions do you have about this?

This week, we will be reading Chapter 2 “What Our Faith Can and Cannot Do”.  For those of you just joining us, feel free to jump in. Podcasts will be available until September 30, 2014. Purchase Invitation to Tears here or email us [mail(at)soulation(dot)org] to buy multiple copies. Silver Circle members receive a free copy and discounts on multiple copies. Share your favorite quotes and questions below.

A few additional links and quotes:

“This world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places. But still there is much that is fair. And though in all lands, love is now mingled with grief, it still grows, perhaps, the greater.” J.R.R. Tolkien
“How Does God Feel About Suicide?” at MyFaithHurdle, a forum for question and answers.
“On Death Dignity and Hope” by Kelsey Vandeventer
Soulation’s Four-Part Series on Depression by Susan Lawrence.
“[We must] enter ourselves first of all into the center of our existence and become familiar with the complexities of our inner lives. As soon as we feel home in our own house, discover the dark corners as well as the light spots, the closed doors as well as the drafty rooms, our confusion will evaporate, our anxiety will diminish, and we will become capable of creative work. ***The key word here is articulation.*** Those who can articulate the movements of their inner life, who can give names to their varied experiences, need no longer be victims of themselves, but are able slowly and consistently to remove the obstacles that prevent the spirit from entering. They are able to create space for Him whose heart is greater than theirs, whose eyes see more than theirs, and whose hands can heal more than theirs. This articulation, I believe, is the basis for spiritual leadership of the future, because only they who are able to articulate their own experiences can offer themselves to others as a source of clarification. ” –Henri Nouwen, The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society My thanks to Ryan Thomas Neace for drawing my attention to this quote.
Grief support groups by state.
Ask Live mentoring one-on-one
The Topography of Tears by Rose-Lynn Fisher – an art/photography project observing how different tears take different shapes.

The next podcast is on “What Our Faith Can and Cannot Do” (Chapter 2). Co-author of Invitation to Tears, Aubrie Hills, will answer questions from the comments below. Or you can send confidential questions to mail(at)soulation(dot)org. You must have your questions submitted by 1pm MT Friday afternoon.

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See Read-Along #1
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