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Peter M. Wallace
A spirituality book on the peace of God--what it is, how to experience it, how to share it.
Peter M. Wallace
During a beach walk on a retreat I was taking on St. Simon's Island, GA, some years ago, it occurred to me that each year I'd visited, the beach had changed its shape--the tides, winds, and waves had created new dunes or captured water in a pond, and jetties pushed out from the shore in new places. The sea and shore were the same, but different, depending on the time I saw it. The same phenomenon occurs, I realized, when reading the Bible. The words are the same, but the meaning shifts and grows depending on our experience and our times. As I read again through the gospels during that retreat, this time the emotions of Jesus blazed through--I was amazed that I had missed this aspect of his human identity. Here he was grieving deeply, there he was utterly angry. At times he was joyful, at other times fearful. As I studied the emotions of Jesus, I found I could relate to him more fully, human to human, and this approach helped to deepen my faith. The book that resulted from this experience is "The Passionate Jesus: What We Can Learn from Jesus About Love, Fear, Grief, Joy and Living Authentically."
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