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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.
The Gift of Being Yourself
by David Benner
To know God, we must know ourselves. And to know ourselves, we must know God. This is the premise of the whole book. It is not pointless naval gazing to embark on the journey of knowing yourself, but an important part of the process of knowing God and God’s call in your life. In this book, Benner will lead you through the dance of growing in intimacy with God as we come to know ourselves through practices of prayer that open us to experience who he is and to allow him to speak into our everyday lives and reveal the beauty of who we really are and who he made us to be.
Breathing Underwater by Richard Rohr
The Twelve Steps in addiction recovery can teach us a lot about the spiritual journey. Addiction comes in various disguises. Most of us know about alcohol and even social media addiction. Lesser known addictions include relationship codependency, workaholism, perfectionism… anything that we use in a compulsive manner to meet our needs can become an addiction. We all have compulsions and dependencies that we rely on for our happiness. Much of the spiritual journey is about learning how to detach from these addictions to live with more freedom, love, and consciousness. In this book, Rohr shows how the Twelve Steps can guide us toward more freedom in our spiritual journeys.
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