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Books
Surrender to Love by David Benner
This book met me in my depression. I realized that much of what led me there was a deep seated belief that I needed to earn my worth. In this book, Benner begins with an important question: When you imagine God thinking about you, what do you imagine he feels towards you? It revealed so much about how I was trying to earn God’s love, when it was already available to me and I simply needed to trust it. Benner helps us recognize the deep love God has for us and invites us to trust in the transformative power of that love.
Attached to God by Krispin Mayfield
Looking through the lens of attachment at my relationship with God changed so much. It helped me see how I had developed spiritual practices that were undermining a healthy and satisfying relationship with God. Mayfield unpacks the attachment styles of anxious, avoidant, and shame-based and offers practices to heal each of the insecure attachment styles so that we might live into a more secure attachment and a closer relationship with God.
Breathing Underwater by Richard Rohr
Another word for sin we might use is addiction. We all have compulsions and dependencies that we rely on for our happiness. So much of our spiritual journey as Christians is detaching from these addictions and coming to rely solely on God’s love for our fulfillment. That’s how Rohr approaches it in this book that likens our spiritual journey to the Twelve Steps of addiction recovery. An enlightening and fresh perspective on how to learn to live with greater freedom.
Other Resources
Sacred Ordinary Days Planner
This amazing resource combines a devotional guide with a daily planner. This planner serves as a reminder that our life with God is meant to infuse our ordinary days, tasks, and activities. This planner has a space for you to articulate a rule of life and to practice a weekly examen, a way to check in with how God is moving in your everyday life.
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