Between the Dreaming and the Coming True: The Road Home to God
By (Author) Robert Benson
Penguin Putnam Inc
Jeremy P Tarcher
29th January 2001
United States
General
Non Fiction
Personal religious testimony and popular inspirational works
Spirituality and religious experience
248.4092
Paperback
160
Width 140mm, Height 216mm, Spine 9mm
How can I know God How can I hear his voice through the noise of my daily life How can I become the person God wants me to be Such questions are the burdens every pilgrim on the road to God must bear. For those who have faced adversity endured hard times and questioned their Christian faith Robert Benson offers this account of his sojourn in a season of trouble and his journey - lifelong arduous and profoundly joyful - back to God. In this spiritual self-portrait Benson's experiences battling depression searching for a truly vital and sustaining relationship to God and re-examining the deep Christian faith in which he has been immersed since childhood become the fluent and poignant testament of one believer's struggle with the mysteries of faith's road. Benson poses every seeker's ultimate question: What am I meant to do with life that stretch of time between God's creation or 'dreaming' of him and the 'coming true' my return to him Illuminating the path of Christian faith Benson lends a guiding hand to every seeker and offers all of us reassurance that the ultimate home - God - awaits us at the end of life's journey.
"Charming and elegantly written. . . . Willa Cather's phrase, 'Thy will be done in art as it is in heaven' could serve as an epigraph to this fine work." -Publishers Weekly
Robert Benson is the author of Living Prayer, Venite, and Between the Dreaming and the Coming True. He lives in Nashville.