Godyssey

About the Book

Anyone who had their corporate coming-of-age during the "live-for-success/look-out-for-number-one" heyday of the ‘70s and ‘80s will nostalgically delight and find renewal of spirit in this book by a onetime Yuppie "reclaimed" by her Lord. Like many of her generation who found themselves caught up in consumerist values and careerist lifestyles, the author experienced a sense of estrangement from her own soul...sparking a search for "redemption" that will touch the heart of the most jaded worldling.

A spiritual adventure with a cosmopolitan twist, Godyssey seeks to help the spiritually disenfranchised rediscover that Lord whose gentle "wooing" they still sense within some recess of the soul, and to recover those Christian ideals they had lost touch with in their pursuit of success. By presenting Christ as a kind of "mentor" in the art of successful living, this book provides much-needed shepherding to those left spiritually stranded by their immersion in America's recent corporate and cultural milieu.

CONTENTS

                                     Foreword.........................................................................................................................9

                                     I           Strange Gods.....................................................................................................13
                                                    In servitude to the self

                                     II          The Pearl of Great Price....................................................................................25
                                                    A seduction of the soul

                                     III         Coming Home....................................................................................................33
                                                    God's gentle politics of persuasion and conversion

                                     IV         The Good Life....................................................................................................71
                                                     A work of art from the canvas of the everyday

                                     V         The Greatest of These.......................................................................................95
                                                     Life's highest calling

                                     VI         Getting Along...................................................................................................123
                                                     Grace through gritted teeth

                                     VII        The Second Mile..............................................................................................149
                                                     The art of "Good Samaritanship"

                                     VIII        A Journal of the Winds....................................................................................179
                                                     God's potluck providence

                                     IX         Crooked Lines..................................................................................................199
                                                     The poetry of pain

                                     Afterword.......................................................................................................................221


     

About the Author

An American by birth and lifelong Christian, the author grew up in various places throughout the world and lives occasionally in Israel. When not writing, she works in the library field. Her work first appeared in the Los Angeles Times. This is her first book.