
Grace at Table
Small Spiritual Solutions to Large Material Problems, Solving Everything
Donna Schaper(Author)
Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published on 5. June 2013
124 pages
978-1-62189-705-7 (ISBN)
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Grace at Table advocates prayer at table as a way to solve everything. By everything we mean the dismay, dis-ease, and fear of the future that permeates way too many human souls. Addiction is one response to the moment, fear another, and despair a third. Widespread immobility and lack of focus come to mind as indications of over-stimulation by the negatives and under-stimulation by the positives. Prayer at table stimulates the positives. It is a pause that refreshes the spirit, reorienting us to a sense of gratitude and grace for whatever we may face. Prayer doesn't have to be hands folded or knees bent--although there is nothing wrong with folding hands or dropping to our knees. Instead, prayer here is understood as pause to give thanks, to look around, to interrupt constant action with reflection, allowing the table and our food to be our nudge. Changing the general atmosphere of despair and decay to thanks and appreciation is a big change, made in a small way. Like a wheelbarrow, prayer carries the heavy load, lightly, giving us the lift we need to manage what we fear we cannot. Prayer at table resolves the appreciation deficit disorder, which goes on to make us strong for climate change, recession, and a mounting sense of debt. It replaces shame and blame with gratitude and grace.
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Language
English
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Eugene
United States
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978-1-62189-705-7 (9781621897057)
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Small Spiritual Solutions to Large Material Problems, Solving Everything
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Small Spiritual Solutions to Large Material Problems, Solving Everything
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The Rev. Dr. Donna Schaper is Senior Minister of Judson Memorial Church in New York City and the author of thirty books, mostly about keeping Sabbath while gardening and being an activist. Best known for being dismembered by a garden club, she spends her days loving parish ministry in New York City. She also grows a great tomato and gathers sticks to build evening fires at her country shack in Fishkill, New York.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Part 1: At Gatherings
- Glimpse 1: The Dinner Party
- Glimpse 2: At Second Glance
- Glimpse 3: Accidental Gatherings
- Glimpse 4: Just a Pear and a Plate
- Glimpse 5: The Potluck Supper
- Glimpse 6: Less-ness as Thanksgiving
- Glimpse 7: Guilt and Grace
- Glimpse 8: Foraging as a Form of Prayer from the Forest
- Glimpse 9: A Truckload of Turnips Gathered on the Church Lawn
- Glimpse 10: A Gathering of Chickens
- Part 2: On The Road
- Glimpse 11: Rice, Tea, and Global Naiveté
- Glimpse 12: Chinese Food in China
- Glimpse 13: Chinese Women Know How to Eat
- Glimpse 14: Always Go to the Eastern Hospital in Beijing
- Glimpse 15: First Class Home
- Glimpse 16: Gobsmacked and Grateful
- Glimpse 17: Walking Ten Miles for Water in India
- Glimpse 18: What I Have Been Trying to Tell You So Far about Glimpsing the Spirit in Food
- Part 3: Ordinary Life
- Glimpse 19: Everybody Has a Deer Story
- Glimpse 20: Coming from a Place
- Glimpse 21: Three Strawberry Shortcakes in One Weekend
- Glimpse 22: The Eucharist of it All
- Glimpse 23: G. K. Chesterton, Putting Even More Ordinary in the Ordinary Grace at Table
- Glimpse 24: Trust at Table
- Glimpse 25: Buddy, Can You Spare a Dime?
- Glimpse 26: Prayer is Not an Olympic Sport
- Glimpse 27: Appreciation of Appreciators
- Glimpse 28: Are You Still Working on That?
- Glimpse 29: You Don't Have to Farm in Poughkeepsie to Know the Sacred in Food
- Glimpse 30: Calorie Counting
- Glimpse 31: Utopian Ideas for the Road
- Glimpse 32: Tomatoes on the Vine
- Glimpse 33: Fast Food Your Way
- Glimpse 34: Coffee Breaks with the Spirit
- Glimpse 35: The Sick Care System
- Glimpse 36: Eating on the Road
- Glimpse 37: Food and Grocery Stores
- Glimpse 38: Manna, the Modern
- Glimpse 39: Beyond the Purists
- Part 4: Special Graces, Special Tables
- Glimpse 40: Don't Schedule the Unusual, Engage the Usual
- Glimpse 41: Prayer at Thanksgiving
- Glimpse 42: Praise is the Purpose of Christmas
- Glimpse 43: Episodic and Diachronic Holidays
- Glimpse 44: A Prayer for the Easter Ham
- Glimpse 45: A Prayer for the Passover Lamb
- Glimpse 46: Do Something Odd
- Glimpse 47: A Prayer for My Birthday Cake
- Part 5: Prayers for Me, by Me, with Me
- Glimpse 48: Prayers I
- Glimpse 49: Prayers II
- Glimpse 50: Prayers III
- Glimpse 51: Prayers IV
- Glimpse 52: Forward, Not Back, to Nature
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