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Hope in the Wilderness: Spiritual Reflections for When God Feels Far Away
"Behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak to her heart . . ." (Hos 2:14)
Hope in the Wilderness urges you to consider that your wilderness experiences--places where you suffer deeply, places where you can't find or feel God anymore, places of transition and upending of the life you used to know--are the very places where God speaks to your heart. As Noel Forlini Burt invites you into her own season of wilderness wandering, she enfolds the story of biblical characters who also wandered in wilderness, gently beckoning you to open yourself to the heart of God in your own story. Not merely a book to read, Hope in the Wilderness beckons you to lament your losses honestly, to be allured by the God who loves you, and to discover hope in the midst of your own wilderness.
Hope in the Wilderness urges you to consider that your wilderness experiences--places where you suffer deeply, places where you can't find or feel God anymore, places of transition and upending of the life you used to know--are the very places where God speaks to your heart. As Noel Forlini Burt invites you into her own season of wilderness wandering, she enfolds the story of biblical characters who also wandered in wilderness, gently beckoning you to open yourself to the heart of God in your own story. Not merely a book to read, Hope in the Wilderness beckons you to lament your losses honestly, to be allured by the God who loves you, and to discover hope in the midst of your own wilderness.
103 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 12, 2022
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January 13, 2025
A needed book
This is not a book recounting what is popularly, but probably unhelpfully, called the "deconstruction of faith." It is, however, a book that will be immensely helpful to many who find themselves in such a time. Deconstruction, in this popular sense, names a search for authenticity, of the squaring of belief with one's sense of self. The problem is this self is often the "false self" about which Noel Burt writes. And it comes to be replaced by another false self. Noel Burt is a wise guide for such a time, and supplier of images and aphorisms that can assist the discovery of one's true self in God. And that discovery is the beginning of faith that seeks understanding.
This is not a book recounting what is popularly, but probably unhelpfully, called the "deconstruction of faith." It is, however, a book that will be immensely helpful to many who find themselves in such a time. Deconstruction, in this popular sense, names a search for authenticity, of the squaring of belief with one's sense of self. The problem is this self is often the "false self" about which Noel Burt writes. And it comes to be replaced by another false self. Noel Burt is a wise guide for such a time, and supplier of images and aphorisms that can assist the discovery of one's true self in God. And that discovery is the beginning of faith that seeks understanding.
October 9, 2023
Simply beautiful.
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