Home, I Am: A Minister's Metaphorical Memoir on Midlife Meaninglessness
ABSURD When meaning breaks down, consciousness awakens. AUTHENTIC Where we fall short, grace completes. ANGER In injury, compassion heals. ALIENISM When alone, we find our sacred connection. ANXIETY In fear, God covers us with a shelter of calmness.[/Center] If you are seeking hope and healing during a crisis of meaning, Ferdinand Llenado's story describes that search, in sincere passion and poetry, providing both a message of encouragement and a model for therapeutic writing. Written in a beautiful tapestry of reality and metaphors, facts and fiction, Home, I Am will take readers into the realm of humanity's inner yearning for answers, absolution, and peace of mind--a condition described here as "finding home." From spiritual homelessness to unconditional at-homeness, you are invited to experience with the author an altering journey of self-discovery. Welcome home!
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Home, I Am: A Minister's Metaphorical Memoir on Midlife Meaninglessness
ABSURD When meaning breaks down, consciousness awakens. AUTHENTIC Where we fall short, grace completes. ANGER In injury, compassion heals. ALIENISM When alone, we find our sacred connection. ANXIETY In fear, God covers us with a shelter of calmness.[/Center] If you are seeking hope and healing during a crisis of meaning, Ferdinand Llenado's story describes that search, in sincere passion and poetry, providing both a message of encouragement and a model for therapeutic writing. Written in a beautiful tapestry of reality and metaphors, facts and fiction, Home, I Am will take readers into the realm of humanity's inner yearning for answers, absolution, and peace of mind--a condition described here as "finding home." From spiritual homelessness to unconditional at-homeness, you are invited to experience with the author an altering journey of self-discovery. Welcome home!
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Home, I Am: A Minister's Metaphorical Memoir on Midlife Meaninglessness

Home, I Am: A Minister's Metaphorical Memoir on Midlife Meaninglessness

by Ferdinand Llenado
Home, I Am: A Minister's Metaphorical Memoir on Midlife Meaninglessness

Home, I Am: A Minister's Metaphorical Memoir on Midlife Meaninglessness

by Ferdinand Llenado

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ABSURD When meaning breaks down, consciousness awakens. AUTHENTIC Where we fall short, grace completes. ANGER In injury, compassion heals. ALIENISM When alone, we find our sacred connection. ANXIETY In fear, God covers us with a shelter of calmness.[/Center] If you are seeking hope and healing during a crisis of meaning, Ferdinand Llenado's story describes that search, in sincere passion and poetry, providing both a message of encouragement and a model for therapeutic writing. Written in a beautiful tapestry of reality and metaphors, facts and fiction, Home, I Am will take readers into the realm of humanity's inner yearning for answers, absolution, and peace of mind--a condition described here as "finding home." From spiritual homelessness to unconditional at-homeness, you are invited to experience with the author an altering journey of self-discovery. Welcome home!

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781630875398
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date: 03/16/2012
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 130
File size: 412 KB

About the Author

Ferdinand Llenado has been a pastor of the United Methodist Church for twenty years. While in ministry, he also pursued further studies and earned a Master of Divinity, a Master of Sacred Theology, and a Doctor of Missiology degree.

Table of Contents

Foreword Robert Corin Morris ix

Preface xiii

Acknowledgments xix

1 I Am Nowhere 1

2 I Was A Homeowner 7

3 I Was Homeless Inside a Home 21

4 I Am Homeless 37

5 I Am 50

6 I Am Home Always Already 59

7 I, Others, and the Pan 70

Conclusion: I Am Not Ferdie Anymore 102

Epilogue 105

Bibliography 109

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