What Size Are God's Shoes?: Kids, Chaos, and the Spiritual Life

by Tim Schenck, Barbara Cawthorne Crafton (Foreword)

"It’s hard to have a God complex when your kids expect you to play garbage truck every night. This is the game where I lie on the floor as the boys stuff trucks, action figures, and plastic dinosaurs into my shirt. When the garbage truck is full to the point of overflowing, I go to the town dump by standing up. This is repeated ad nauseum. On any given day, I might find myself absolving sins in the name of the Church one moment and serving the cause of waste management the next."

Do you believe God can be found in both the miraculous and the mundane? Through 40 insightful and engaging essays, Tim Schenck helps us encounter God through the chaos of everyday life. The divine presence weaves its way into a family room fish tank, a child’s probing questions, the town pool, and the drive-thru window of the local fast food chain.

144 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 1, 2008

About the author

The Rev. Tim Schenck is an avid coffee drinker, Episcopal priest, author, humorist, syndicated columnist, blogger, and creator of the wildly popular online devotion, Lent Madness (think saints doing battle in basketball-style brackets).

Pastor of St. John's Episcopal Church in Hingham, Massachusetts, on Boston’s South Shore for the past nine years, Tim previously served parishes in Baltimore and New York.

Tim is active on social media (follow him on Twitter @FatherTim), blogs at Clergy Confidential, and writes a monthly column for Gatehouse Media full of humor and inspiration titled In Good Faith. His latest book, Holy Grounds: The Surprising Connection Between Coffee and Faith -- From Dancing Goats to Satan's Drink (Fortress Press), will available in the Spring of 2019.

When not tending to his congregation, writing, or drinking coffee (often simultaneously), Tim enjoys life with his wife, Bryna, two teenage sons, and their dog Delilah.

Reviews

[Jo Oehrlein · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a cool book by an Episcopal priest who is also the father of two young boys. The book is about God and families, and finding God when you're in the middle of a busy, active family.

The chapters are very short, like they were originally columns in a newspaper or magazine. That makes them perfect for a quick dip.

This seems like a good book for a Mom's group (you'll want to read the whole book, or at least multiple chapters at a time) or an individual (maybe a chapter a day).

[Cynthia · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great read with the title being so accurate with the subject matter.