Why do we do what we do? What happens as a result? How do we make sense of, and find meaning in, our lives and in the world that contains us? How do we render wholeness out of brokenness, creating mosaics of beauty and functionality from the rent pieces of our lives? This collection of Sabbath meditations invites readers to inhabit the questions with intention and joy. With a pastor's sensibility, a writer's lyricism, and a generous heart, Leaf Seligman invokes poetry, thinking from diverse spiritual traditions, and stories from her own walk through life to grapple with enduring religious themes and contemporary challenges. It is the preacher's responsibility to be of use, to choose words with great care, and open the window so spirit can move in and out, she writes in her afterword. Indeed, these meditations the words themselves and their call to a more fully understood, more deeply felt life resonate long after the bookmark is tucked into place and the covers closed. Read them slowly and deliberately. Let them be your company as you journey through the Sabbath and into the week. Table of Contents Introduction KEEP KNOCKING Truth on my Lips The Virtue of Disappointment Reclaiming Sin Why Universalism Still Matters Of Shoes and the Sacred Lessons from Haiti Food Democracy A Meditation on Memorial Day THE JOY INSIDE The Call to Joy What is Worth Pursuing? On Being Found The Days of Awe Roses of Guadalupe Communion Under the Tent On Death and Being COME TO THE WINDOW Holy Disruption To Be of Use Cultivating Faith With New Eyes and Ears Of Advent and Uncertainty Little Boxes Another Way Evolution of Ideas LOOK TO SEE WHO IS THERE An Act of the Recklessly Generous Heart Beyond Acceptance into Welcome Freedom from Constraint The Burden of Cain What is Next? Rising Again The Missing Years Wandering in the Wilderness Afterword: Some Thoughts on Preaching Acknowledgments

Opening the Window: Sabbath Meditations

Religion & Spirituality

Seligman, Leaf

Christian Books & Bibles

Bauhan Publishing

Writer and teacher Leaf Seligman encourages students to use writing as a way to deepen connection, make meaning or clarify it. In this pocket-sized book she asks more than seventy questions intended as invitations to plumb, to look, to listen, and to engage with life.

A Pocket Book of Prompts

This inventive book has at its core a collection of linked short stories depicting the lives of sideshow oddities in an early twentieth-century carnival traveling through the rural south. While the fiction opens a door to another world, ultimately it invites readers to think differently about the world we inhabit and the universal need to belong, to experience redemption, to reclaim our imperfections as part of what makes us whole. An introductory essay frames the collection, inviting readers to consider more deeply how the socio-historical context and characters create metaphors for our own experience. The book concludes with a series of creative prompts to engage readers with the text so that the stories continue to unfold.

From the Midway: Unfolding Stories of Redemption and Belonging

Literature & Fiction

Short Stories & Anthologies

A series of essays that reflects on a world view and embodied practice that restores the possibility of a world where right relationship can flourish. While restorative justice refers to a set of principled responses to harm centered on healing, often in a legal context, and restorative practice extends those responses to other contexts such as schools and the workplace, restorative being embeds connection, compassion, belonging, and accountability into everyday life. In this collection of essays, Leaf Seligman--restorative practitioner, circle-keeper, educator, itinerant preacher, and advocate for tenderness--reflects on a world view and embodied practice that restores the possibility of a world where right relationship can flourish.

Being Restorative

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Opening the Window: Sabbath Meditations

A Pocket Book of Prompts

From the Midway: Unfolding Stories of Redemption and Belonging

Being Restorative