Finding Hope
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Discover the freedom and joy that come when you open your heart to Hope
This practical guide gives you the inspiration, encouragement and practices you need to cultivate a hopeful spirit and thus live a more fulfilling and joyful life. Writing from personal experience and her broad knowledge of many faith traditions, Marcia Ford helps you recognize-or develop-your own personal images of hope and create a place where you can go to see the many evidences of hope in your life any time despair seeps in. She provides important learning tools that you can apply to everyday life experiences, inspiring personal stories of hope from the famous and not-so-famous and realistic exercises for creating the overall balance and peace you look to achieve in living your life connected to God. Drawing from Christian and Hebrew scripture and the wisdom of spiritual teachers from all traditions, Ford helps you realize that we all can receive a gift of hope and grace from the Divine-we just need to be open to accept it.
Topics include:
- Dealing with Disappointment
- It's Not Wishful Thinking
- Impossible Situations
- Recovering from Loss
- Hope amid Suffering
- Overcoming Hopelessness
- Real and Imagined Threats
- The Heart of Healing
- Cultivating a Hopeful Spirit
- Freedom's Fascinating Power
- And more ...
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Marcia Ford is a former editor of Christian Retailing magazine, an Explorefaith.org columnist and frequent contributor to Publishers Weekly. The author of eighteen books, including The Sacred Art of Forgiveness: Forgiving Ourselves and Others through God's Grace (SkyLight Paths); Memoir of a Misfit and Traditions of the Ancients, she was the religion editor of The Asbury Park Press for ten years. She is also a former editor with Charisma and Ministries Today magazines and the ibelieve.com website. Her other books include Meditations for Misfits; 101 Most Powerful Promises of the Bible and Restless Pilgrim: The Spiritual Journey of Bob Dylan (with Scott Marshall).
Content
- Intro
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Beginning with Hope
- Epigraph
- 1. Hope under Fire
- 2. Dealing with Disappointment
- 3. It's Not Wishful Thinking
- 4. Postmodern Vision
- 5. Impossible Situations
- 6. Recovering from Loss
- 7. Hope amid Suffering
- 8. Just How Hopeless Do You Feel?
- 9. Overcoming Hopelessness
- 10. Real and Imagined Threats
- 11. Hope Dies Last
- 12. Holding On to Hope
- 13. The Heart of Healing
- 14. The Unreturned Prodigal
- 15. Cultivating a Hopeful Spirit
- 16. Going to Hell in a Handbasket
- 17. The Hope of Depression
- 18. The God Who Loves Us
- 19. Drama 101
- 20. The Persecuted Faithful
- 21. Passing It On
- 22. Freedom's Fascinating Power
- 23. The Worst That Could Happen
- 24. A Better Life to Come
- Ending with Hope
- Acknowledgments
- Credits
- Notes
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- About the Authors
- Copyright
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