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Seasoned by Seasons: Flourishing in life's experiences
Like the seasons themselves, our lives are variable and can change in a moment. In Seasoned by Seasons, Michael Mitton acknowledges this and offers Bible reflections for the variety of life's seasons: spring, the season of emerging new life; summer, the season of fruitfulness; autumn, the season of letting go; winter, the season of discovering light in the dark. What can we learn, and how can we be encouraged in each season of our lives? This book will empower you to discover for yourself the truths and messages of scripture, and might well transform the way you view life's changes.
160 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 20, 2017
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July 22, 2018
This is a beautiful and inspirational book encapsulating the different seasons of our lives. For anyone who loves storytelling here is a master storyteller retelling some tales from the bible in the most beguiling way that engages all your senses. You will find characters here you might never have heard of, like Mephibosheth or Hagar and other characters that are well renowned, like Mary and Martha. Yet every one of these stories encompasses emotional or psychological states very familiar to us today.
Often Michael Mitton's turn of phrase is streetwise, cheeky, funny; and often you will be moved by the sheer power of dynamic equivalents. Every story has a message which we can relate to our own lives; maybe the original tale was written many centuries ago, but now you will find it imaginatively expanded in a style which has grace, lyricism and poetry.
With a true story-telling gift, Michael Mitton weaves his spell and beguiles us with insights and metaphors about the dynamics of life. Here you will find a runaway slave girl who was rejected but is now raised up in dignity and worth; there you will find a man with a hideous skin disease who has to beg a hated foreign power for help, and ends up drowning his considerable pride. And then you will find a young woman who resents her sister and is in danger of trapping herself with her own martyr complex...
And when you read the stories here which are from the New Testament, I feel sure you too will, like myself, have a much richer sense on a human level of the person of Jesus: his humour, warmth, compassion; his wisdom, humanity, discernment; his disregard for conventon and rules, his sharpness, wit, mental flexibility, clear vision, and sheer versatility.
Often Michael Mitton's turn of phrase is streetwise, cheeky, funny; and often you will be moved by the sheer power of dynamic equivalents. Every story has a message which we can relate to our own lives; maybe the original tale was written many centuries ago, but now you will find it imaginatively expanded in a style which has grace, lyricism and poetry.
With a true story-telling gift, Michael Mitton weaves his spell and beguiles us with insights and metaphors about the dynamics of life. Here you will find a runaway slave girl who was rejected but is now raised up in dignity and worth; there you will find a man with a hideous skin disease who has to beg a hated foreign power for help, and ends up drowning his considerable pride. And then you will find a young woman who resents her sister and is in danger of trapping herself with her own martyr complex...
And when you read the stories here which are from the New Testament, I feel sure you too will, like myself, have a much richer sense on a human level of the person of Jesus: his humour, warmth, compassion; his wisdom, humanity, discernment; his disregard for conventon and rules, his sharpness, wit, mental flexibility, clear vision, and sheer versatility.
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