The women we've been waiting for A 40-day devotional for self-care, resilience, and communal flourishing
Book - 2024
"This 40-day devotional invites readers to see their spiritual growth and self-care as crucial to their work in the world. As women care for themselves spiritually, they are better equipped to address broken systems and effect social change"--
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Grand Rapids, Michigan :
Brazos Press, a division of Baker Publishing Group
[2024]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- pages ; cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN
- 9781587436390
- Preface
- Contributors
- Part 1. Matriarchs of the Past
- 1. Holy and Whole
- 2. Last at the Cross
- 3. Know Better, Do Better
- 4. Mothers of the Movement
- 5. Dreams of the Matriarchs
- 6. Birthright
- 7. Healing
- 8. Prayers of Our Mothers
- Part 2. Holy Endurance
- 9. Advocates for Rest
- 10. Lionhearted Liturgies
- 11. Get in Formation
- 12. Crafting Conditions of Care
- 13. Lament to Heal
- 14. A Culture of Belonging
- 15. Your Beautiful Body
- 16. Discernment
- Part 3. The Stories That Form Us
- 17. Gentleness
- 18. Reclaiming What's Been Lost
- 19. Befriending Grief
- 20. Her Story
- 21. The Stories We Tell Ourselves
- 22. Waiting
- 23. Who Is Pure?
- 24. Despair and the Divine
- Part 4. Formation of the Soul
- 25. Collateral Damage
- 26. We Remember You
- 27. Magnificent Refuge
- 28. Navigating Burnout
- 29. Righteous Defiance
- 30. Steadfast Joy
- 31. Carry One Another
- 32. Bearing Witness
- Part 5. Future Liberation
- 33. Arrival
- 34. We Go High
- 35. The Future Belongs to Us
- 36. Consent to Reality
- 37. Hospitality amid Hostility
- 38. Who Are We Becoming?
- 39. Love Is the Final Fight
- 40. Becoming a Non-anxious Presence
- Acknowledgments
- Notes