Married to the Cloth

REFRAMING THE SOUL : How Words Transform Our Faith By Gregory Spencer  I stumbled across this book on netgalley. The title intrigued me. Reframing means to place in a new frame or to express something differently. This book helps the reader to look at circumstances through a new window frame, to see others with empathy and to release the reader from 'victim mentality'. Not to ignore or just slap a pretty label on hard experiences, but to view those circumstances differently. "one of the noblest roles of a communicator is “to render the unspeakable speakable,” to point to qualities others have been unable to articulate." I love this quote. It conjures up great writers who dared, those who wrote of terrible, horrifying truths. From the holocaust recorders writing down names of the dead and what horrors their eyes witnessed to Maya Angelou's poetry and prose singing out from the darkness. "We are used to looking out through the windows to the world o...

A generation ago, Quest for Love was published. It was a hit. Why? We needed hope that as young believers, we were on the right path. There is still a need those stories. Stories of inspirational lives waiting for G-d to write their romance into being. This book is that hope for this next generation. Hope that G-d still hears and listens to our hearts. Hope that in the midst of technological advances that we still have the best match maker. I adore Rhonda Stoppe. There are a bunch of books on my shelf that are written by some one I know in real life. But very few by some one who has spoken truth onto my life. 10-12 years ago, Rhonda sat with me in the woods and listened to me whine and showed me a track back to where I was intended to be. Rhonda holds a special place in my life, as it is not easy to speak truth into the wounded, and do it well. This same Rhonda from the picnic bench in the woods, is the same one writing these wonderful books. She doesn't change wh...