Make Your Home in My Love: Live in My Joy

by Catherine Skinner Powell, Tilden Edwards (Foreword)

Are you living as God’s burning bush, without being consumed? Or might you be headed toward burnout?
We will rediscover the blessing of this mutual love relationship with God, overflowing to others, as God’s sheer gift. Could it be that the first and greatest commandment is for our greatest joy, and not some mysterious burden to fulfill?
One metaphor is the vine and the branches from John 15:1–11. Jesus is the vine and we are the branches; apart from the vine the branch can do nothing. God wants to be our supply, our source, in an intimate encounter of the finite with the infinite.
God was the source for these heroes of Augustine of Hippo, Bernard of Clairvaux, Catherine of Siena, Ignatius of Loyola, John Calvin, and Teresa of Avila. Using a descriptive process called the Classic Three Ways, including the purgative (letting go), illuminative (seeing with the heart), and unitive (intimacy), dating back to around 500 CE, we now add a fourth way, the unitive/active (the dance). From that dance of mutual love, ministry overflows. We do it together; it is participatory, humankind following God’s lead.
It’s not a formula. It’s our living God!

156 pages, Paperback

Published November 13, 2019

Reviews

[Katie Ruth · Rating 4 out of 5]

Each chapter provided a small glimpse into the lives of different spiritual mystics. Like a tantalizing appetizer, the chapters functioned for me as a primer to some mystics that I would like to read more of their works in the future. Being introduced to the Classic 3 ways (plus one) was a highlight. Having language to describe the rhythms of life is empowering and insightful. This framework provides a building block to explore meaning making and develop awareness of the positioning of one in their journey with God. Almost like a compass that provides direction to the explorer, so the Classic 3 ways gently guide us to embrace spirituality with openness and curiosity.