Wild Dancing: Embraced By Untamed Love

by Janice Edwards

At the age of forty-three Janice Edwards experienced brain surgery to remove a benign but very destructive brain tumor. When the doctors woke her after three days of anesthesia, a friend came to visit. She could have talked about an utterly bedridden body and much impairment, but instead she spoke about Love and its communion. Her body was disabled, yet her spirit soared. Everyone’s spirit can soar; this conviction compelled her to write "Wild Dancing." "Wild Dancing" revolves around Love, our capacity to contemplate it, and its ability to change us. Contemplation is an extremely important, innately human, and often underrated capability, and Janice lets our experience of it describe its meaning and manifest its dynamics. The God that dances through this book is a person and a cosmic energy that livens and leavens everything and everyone. For more information see Praise for "Wild Dancing" “This is a rare and original book, full of wisdom about the spiritual life, human suffering, prayer, dark contemplation as well as light, and experiences of union with nature, other persons, and with God… It renders with simplicity some of the most complex of human possibilities in relation to God and all that God’s love holds in being.” -Margaret Farley, Gilbert L. Stark Professor Emerita of Christian Ethics, Yale University Divinity School “Janice Edwards vision of love is just as cosmic as Teilhard’s, but it is also a love that is clearly stronger than debilitating disease, than rape, than injustice, than the most intense physical suffering, all of which she has known personally.[She] invites us to join the central action of the universe, that sometimes terrifying but ultimately magnificent journey into becoming Love Itself.” -Brian Thomas Swimme, Professor of Cosmology, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco Cover by Louise Young, Janice Edwards and imagevolution.com

173 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2012

Reviews

[Matilda Chase · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this book. And no wonder, it is an amazing book about recognizing God's abundant love for us.

[Jennifer · Rating 3 out of 5]

Meh... was recommended to me but honestly didn't do anything for me... took me forever to get through it..