A Fresh Spiritual Direction! Discovering the Divine in Everyone & Everything
BLISSFULL BOOKS & BALLADS reviews ten spiritual growth books written by bestselling authors from several wisdom traditions.
Tap into over 500 years of combined wisdom - and hundreds of spiritual and practical truisms - all in one concise 110-page book!FULL BOOK PDF
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Chapter 1 THE FOUR LOVES “Natural loves ultimate power lies in their ability to prepare us for agape love.”-C. S. LEWIS
Ballad #1: DIVINE LOVE
Chapter 2 THE GRACE IN DYING “Death is not tragic, but rather the final stage of transformational growth.”-KATHLEEN DOWLING SINGH
Ballad #2: MAKING SPACE FOR GRACE
Chapter 3 EVERYTHING BELONGS “The Third Way is the contemplative gift of holding the tension of opposites.”-RICHARD ROHR
Ballad #3: EVERYTHING BELONGS
Chapter 4 HOLY ENVY “When we look for truth in others we can understand our own truth better.”-BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR
Ballad #4: HOLY ENVY
Chapter 5 RETURN of the PRODIGAL SON “Life's hardest spiritual choice: To trust or not trust in God’s all-forgiving love.”-HENRI NOUWEN
Ballad #5: THE PRODIGAL SONSChapter 6 THE BEATITUDES OF PEACE “As Sermon of the Mount people, we work for justice, peace and nonviolence.”-JOHN DEAR
Ballad #6: THE BLESSINGS OF GOD’S KINGDOMChapter 7 ON THE BRINK OF EVERYTHING “Being human means embracing our brokenness as an integral part of life.”-PARKER J. PALMER
Ballad #7: ON THE BRINK OF EVERYTHING GREATChapter 8 THE DIVINE DANCE “A mystic is precisely one who sees things in wholes and not just in parts.”-RICHARD ROHR, MIKE MORRELL
Ballad #8: TRINITYChapter 9 CHRISTIAN MEDITATION “Christ continually calls us to join him seeing God in everyone and everything.”-JAMES FINLEY
Ballad #9: OPEN THE DOOR TO YOUR HEARTChapter 10 RESILIENCE “Resilience is not bouncing back, but healthy integration of pain and suffering.”-ERIC GREITENS
Ballad #10: THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT
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"With gratitude for all you do to make the world a better place." -Barbara Brown Taylor, author
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Author/Songwriter/Musician... David M. Bradshaw has invested his life in discovering and sharing “The Big Picture” of how
to live a fulfilling life – as revealed by hundreds of diverse spiritual leaders, thinkers, authors and teachers that he has read or interviewed over the past half century. He has served as researcher, writer, publisher and broadcaster for both business and non-profit organizations since 1975. As a father of four daughters and grandfather of ten, his passion is to pass on the keys to a blissful life that reflects Unconditional Love to his family, friends and readers.