Just Think: Nourish Your Mind to Feed Your Soul

by Nancy J. Nordenson

JUST THINK encourages you to expand how you use your mind in and beyond everyday life. Savor each chapter as a catalyst to creativity, insight, faith, vision, and wisdom. Even while the stuff of everyday life demands your focus again and again, you can use the habits and strategies in this book to employ your mind to the fullest and prepare for opportunities ahead.

189 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

Nancy J. Nordenson is the author of Finding Livelihood: A Progress of Work and Leisure and Just Think: Nourish Your Mind to Feed Your Soul. Her writing has appeared in Harvard Divinity Bulletin, Indiana Review, Comment, Under the Sun, Relief, and other publications and anthologies, including Becoming: What Makes a Woman (University of Nebraska Gender Studies) and The Spirit of Food: 34 Writers on Feasting and Fasting Toward God (Cascade). Her work has also earned multiple “notable” recognitions in the Best American Essays and Best Spiritual Writing anthologies and Pushcart Prize nominations.

Reviews

[Bob Peterson · Rating 5 out of 5]

I am not sure where I picked this book up from, maybe a library sale? The author covers thinking from many perspectives and ask how many of us really have original thoughts. Do we listen to those around us and the media and just take those thoughts as ours or do we think deeply about a subject and make up her own mind. Filled with wonderful quotes as well. I liked this book and will look for other books about thinking as a sequel. Seems like it may have been written for women, but I think anyone could benefit from it.

[Ruth Everhart · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'll be honest -- I chose to read this book because it was written by a friend of mine. The title didn't suggest it was aimed at me, a well-educated woman with a lively mind! Neither would the cover have persuaded me to pick up the book.

It turns out that the "worst" part of the book is perhaps the title and cover, which don't do the book justice. Between the covers of the book, there is plenty to challenge, enlighten, and enthuse a reader. Nordenson brings herself to the writing, but not in a heavy-handed way. Rather, her recounting of her experience helps the reader engage the subject.

I could see using this book in a church setting with a group of women who want to be thoughtfully engaged in spiritual reflection, but not through typical Bible study.

[Jill Kandel · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's so good to read a thoughtful Christian woman! I mean literally. Thought Full. This is a good departure from a lot of the fluffy writing. I enjoyed Nancy's thoughtful questions and am encouraged to continue to Nourish My Mind! And Feed My Soul. What else really matters?