Seeds of Racial Healing
Description
A Spiritual Journey Toward Healing and Justice for Christians of Color
You are born from a seed that cannot die.
In a world filled with discrimination, racially motivated violence, and miscarriages of justice, hope and joy can feel unattainable, and lies denying your personhood try to dim the truth that you are created in the image of God.
In Seeds of Racial Healing, counselor and spiritual director Sheila Wise Rowe offers you a season of rest and restoration. Her spiritually formative approach enables you to deepen your faith as you pursue healing from racial trauma, past and present.
Anchored in daily Scriptures, these fifty-two devotions help you become more aware of God every day, even as you confront interpersonal racism and systemic oppression. In each devotion, Rowe inspires readers to share your stories and reminds your weary soul that you are fearfully and wonderfully made.
In these devotions, you'll find
- personal stories,
- prayer and encouragement,
- Scripture passages,
- questions for reflection, and
- actionable steps to help you pursue both healing and justice.
If you're a Christian of color looking for a an accessible, trauma-informed devotional, Seeds of Racial Healing will help you confront challenges, embrace your worth as a child of God, and sow seeds of healing and transformation, whether on your own or aspart of a group. You'll find encouragement to employ rest, resilience, and the power of faith to nurture growth in yourself and your community.
. You'll find encouragement to employ rest, resilience, and the power of faith to nurture growth in yourself and your community.More details
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Sheila Wise Rowe (Tufts University, Cambridge College, M.Ed.) is a truth-teller who writes about faith and emotional healing. She advocates for the dignity, rights, and healing of abuse and racial trauma survivors and offers training and support to them and also emerging and established leaders. Sheila has lived in the USA; Paris, France; and Johannesburg, South Africa. For over twenty-five years she's been a counselor, educator, writer, spiritual director, and speaker. She's a member of the Community Ethics Committee of Harvard Medical School, a resource for its teaching hospitals. Sheila is a member of Entrusted Women, Spiritual Directors of Color, and Redbud Writers Guild. Her book Healing Racial Trauma was awarded a 2020 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award, Christianity Today Book Award, and a Publishers Weekly starred review. Her other books include Young, Gifted, and Black; Healing Leadership Trauma (co-authored with her husband, Nicholas Rowe); and Seeds of Racial Healing.
Content
Introduction Part 1: The Sower and the Seeds, Days 1-10 1. Imperishable Seed 2. The Sower 3. Rooted in God 4. Seedbed 5. Seeds of Welcome 6. Crossroads 7. Seeds of Promises 8. Seeds of Trust 9. Seeds of Hope 10. Gathering Straw Part 2: The Soil of Your Story, Days 11-21 11. The Condition of the Soil 12. Toxic Soil 13. The Footpath 14. Rocky Places 15. Among Thorns 16. Grains ofResponsibility 17. The Root of Thoughts and Feelings 18. Pulling the Weeds of Shame 19. On Being 20. Sustenance 21. Seeds of Wounds and Wonder Part 3: Weeds Among the Wheat, Days 22-32 22. Uncovered 23. Seeds of Safety 24. Wheat and Weeds 25. Germination 26. Seedlings 27. The Fruit of Surrender 28. Dormancy: Grief and Mourning 29. The Fruit of Forgiveness 30. Cultivating Justice and Repair 31. Seeded: Community 32. Seeds of Value Part 4: Becoming Grown, Days 33-42 33. The Vine and the Fruit 34. Growing Perseverance 35. Pruning 36. Blossoming Peace 37. Deeply Rooted Rest 38. Seeds of Gratitude 39. Growing Humility 40. The Fruit of Truth 41. Bedrock 42. Waiting for the Harvest of Blessing Part 5: Sow, Tend, and Harvest, Days 43-52 43. Planted for God's Glory 44. Mustard Seed Faith 45. Well-Watered Garden 46. Flourishing 47. Cultivating Good Fruit 48. Securing Pleasant Places 49. Fields of Abundance 50. Tending with Peace and Joy 51. Walking the Fields 52. Fruit That Lasts Acknowledgments Notes
