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Greg Paul
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Well, hello, and welcome!
Since I'm very new to this GoodReads author thing, for the time being I'll just point you to the website for my newest book, "Simply Open: Experiencing God In The Everyday". You'll find a couple of blog posts there already, as well as a cool movie-style trailer for the book. Honestly, that trailer makes even me feel like this must be an important book! And I hope it is.
Enjoy.
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“We remember stories more easily and more completely than we do facts. We assimilate stories differently, bringing to them the shades of understanding made possible by our own experiences, finding something new each time we approach even one that has long been familiar. A story is like a multifaceted jewel, giving off a different light each time it is turned.”
― Close Enough to Hear God Breathe: The Great Story of Divine Intimacy
― Close Enough to Hear God Breathe: The Great Story of Divine Intimacy
“Every story has a structure. Most simply, a beginning, a middle, and an end—although, as Bilbo recognizes in The Lord of the Rings, the story never really ends, and there is always something that came before the beginning of any tale we might tell.”
― Close Enough to Hear God Breathe: The Great Story of Divine Intimacy
― Close Enough to Hear God Breathe: The Great Story of Divine Intimacy
“You’re my child. My beloved. My pleasure.” This is the heart of the matter. This is the message that blows quietly, sweetly through the whole Bible. It’s easy to lose it in the strictures of law, the violent stories of the people of Israel, the doom-laden pronouncements of the prophets, or the near-psychedelic foretelling of future events. It’s so tender, so gentle, that it’s easy to miss it blowing through my own little life story, with all its dramas and distractions. There are a thousand other voices, most of them much louder and more insistent, that have other things to say about who I am. They say things that are demeaning or discouraging.”
― Close Enough to Hear God Breathe: The Great Story of Divine Intimacy
― Close Enough to Hear God Breathe: The Great Story of Divine Intimacy
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Jan 28/15 I'm just winding up a two-week writing retreat - an annual event for me and friend/fellow author Tim Huff. I'm quite pleased to have finished the first draft of another book. This one is a rumination, with reflection on the Gospels and the Letter of James, on what it would look like if First World Christians really decided to follow Jesus.
