Holiness Here: Searching for God in the Ordinary Events of Everyday Life
Ebook
Do You Recognize Holiness in Your Own Life and in the Here and Now?
These days, brokenness feels more comfortable to discuss than holiness. It’s easier to say that we are messy than holy, that healing is a long way off. To say that we are holy seems like one step away from holier than thou, and no one ever wants to be that.
Holiness Here offers practical and inspiring ways to transform your life by helping you see the holiness within your ordinary, everyday life. Holiness is
- a warm invitation to a new and better way to live
- a calling for our lives in Scripture
- a search that marks the life of a Christian (even when we don’t live fully into that reality)
- a most basic urge—to live and love differently that we did before—because what we believe changes the way we act
As a fellow pilgrim on the journey, Karen Stiller weaves together captivating stories, theological insights, and spiritual reflections to help you discover holiness in the mundane moments of your life. With her engaging style and accessible voice, Karen invites you to embark on a journey of spiritual growth, discipleship, and wisdom. You will explore holiness from a fresh perspective, from the importance of community and the role of the church to ways to cultivate a deeper relationship with God and live out your faith. Karen also explores topics like the fruit of the Spirit, money and work, hospitality, and humility.
Read on your own or with a group, Holiness Here is a rich spiritual formation and discipleship resource that will inspire you to seek out the beauty and wonder of a holy life.
Karen Stiller’s always beautiful, always poignant writing invites us to reexamine the seeming ordinariness of our daily lives with new eyes cleansed by tears and in search of hope. From reveries to realities, from hospitality to humility, from giving away to growing up—Stiller pays sacred attention to what has lost our attention and, in doing so, shows us that holiness is here, in lament and in joy, in complaint and in praise. Holiness is our reflection of the divine image in each of us as we strive to discover our truest selves: beings who are beloved and therefore able to love deeply from that first love. Sit with Stiller’s book and be still: Holy, holy, holy is this Lord Almighty, indeed.
Karen Stiller has given us a remarkable gift in the pages of this book. She has dusted off an old, theological word that can be loaded with misconceptions at best and shame at worst and has polished it into a beautiful diamond of an invitation to pursue a ragged and rough and incomplete holiness in the everyday. In doing so, she has become a trusted and wise companion to all of us. What warmth, insight, vulnerability, and understanding you will encounter in Holiness Here. This book has changed my understanding and pursuit of holiness.
“Holiness is and holiness does.” This is the simple yet profound message of this lovely book. With warmth and wit, Stiller assures us that holiness is not just for the starched and neatly pressed saints. Holiness is for the saints who sleep late, stand in the back of the sanctuary, even weep in the valley of the shadow of death. There are few people I’d trust to tell the down-to-earth truth about holiness—and Karen Stiller is one. I recommend this book highly.
Holiness is a word with gravitas, one I associate with imposing cathedrals, confusing rituals, and formally dressed clergy with unapproachable demeanors. Yet God calls us to be holy, you and me. In Holiness Here Karen Stiller brings this theological invitation back down to earth, fitting holiness into the spaces between annoying neighbors and messy children, city parks and homemade ginger cookies. If you’ve felt intimidated by the idea of holiness, I invite you to take a deep breath and pick up this lovely, accessible book.
Both challenging and inspiring, this book paints an earthy picture of holiness that you can feel, see, and touch. If spiritual growth sounds, well, too spiritual, Karen shows us how holiness can be found in our reaction to a lost woman on our doorstep; in a big pot of soup that nourishes a weary friend; in comforting a scared child. In this beautiful prose that will make holiness seem a joy rather than a burden, you’ll find relief from pretension woven in with the comfort that we can see God, and be his hands and feet, even in the ordinary.
- Title: Holiness Here: Searching for God in the Ordinary Events of Everyday Life
- Author: Karen Stiller
- Publisher: NavPress
- Print Publication Date: 2024
- Logos Release Date: 2023
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781641587471, 9781641587457, 1641587458, 1641587474
- Resource ID: LLS:9781641587471
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-12T09:06:16Z