Welcome to the Blog Blitz for Turn My Mourning Into Dancing by Henri Nouwen, hosted by JustRead Publicity Tours!
ABOUT THE BOOK
Title: Turn My Mourning Into Dancing
Author: Henri Nouwen
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Release Date: March 8, 2022
Genre: Christian, Spiritual Growth, Grief
How do you find hope in hard times? Why is it important to have hope during difficult times? Turn My Mourning into Dancing will help you survive the difficult seasons and learn how to live a full life in the midst of them and beyond. With practical advice, Henri Nouwen will gently point you towards a way of life that is grounded in God’s constancy and rooted within eternal hope.
In this updated edition, Turn My Mourning into Dancing discusses five movements we experience during hard times:
• From Our Little Selves to a Larger World
• From Holding Tight to Letting Go
• From Fatalism to Hope
• From Manipulation to Love
• From a Fearful Death to a Joyous Life
Healing begins with taking our pain out of its diabolic isolation and seeing our sufferings in communion with all humanity, and all creation. Nouwen teaches us that our little lives participate in something much larger. Turn My Mourning into Dancing is a must read for:
• men and women looking for growth and insight on life
• anyone going through the grief process and searching for real solutions
• anyone who has experienced a loss, betrayal, or hard times
Everyone grieves differently. It is a process, not a science experiment. Mourning shouldn’t last forever. Do you want the kind of life that allows you to dance even in the middle of the darkest night? Get the answers and find hope within your hard times with Nouwen’s works on spiritual growth.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Henri J. M. Nouwen (1932-1996) was the author of With Open Hands, Reaching Out, The Wounded Healer, Making All Things New, and many other bestsellers. He was the senior pastor of L’Arche Daybreak in Toronto, Canada, a community where men and women with mental disabilities and their assistants create a home for one another.
EXCERPT
From Holding Tight to Letting Go
For years I have loved watching trapeze artists. The love
began when my then- eighty- nine- year- old father came for a visit. Let’s go
to the circus, we decided one day. That evening we watched five South African
trapeze artists—three fliers and two catchers. They danced in the air! The
fliers soared and all was dangerous until they found themselves caught by the
strong hands of their partners. I told my father that I had always wanted to
fly like that, that perhaps I had missed my calling!
I am constantly moved by the courage of my circus friends.
At each performance they trust that their flight will end with their hands
sliding into the secure grip of a partner. They also know that only the release
of the secure bar allows them to move on with arcing grace to the next. Before
they can be caught, they must let go. They must brave the emptiness of space.
Living with this kind of willingness to let go is one of the
greatest challenges we face. Whether it concerns a person, possession, or
personal reputation, in so many areas we hold on at all costs. We become heroic
defenders of our dearly gained happiness. We treat our sometimes inevitable
losses as failures in the battle of survival.
The great paradox is that it is in letting go, we receive.
We find safety in unexpected places of risk. And those who try to avoid all
risk, those who would try to guarantee that their hearts will not be broken,
end up in a self- created hell. C. S. Lewis wrote in The Four Loves,
To love at all is
to be vulnerable…If you want to make sure of keeping [your heart] intact, you
must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round
with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in
the casket of your selfishness. But in that casket— safe, dark, motionless,
airless— it will change. It will not be broken—it will become unbreak-able,
impenetrable, irredeemable…The only place outside of Heaven where you can be
perfectly safe from the danger of love is Hell.
In so many ways, the more we insist on control and the more
we resist the call to hold our lives lightly, the more we have to deny the
reality of our losses and the more artificial our existence becomes. Our belief
that we should grasp tightly what we need provides one of the great sources of
our suffering. But letting go of possessions and plans and people allows us to
enter, for all its risks, a life of new, unexpected freedom.
How can we live with greater willingness to let go? Another
step in turning our mourning into dancing has to do with not clutching what we
have, not trying to reserve a safe place we can rest in, not trying to
choreograph our own or others’ lives, but to surrender to the God whom we love
and want to follow. God invites us to experience our not being in control as an
invitation to faith.
Taken from “Turn My Mourning into Dancing: Finding Hope
During Hard Times” by Henri Nouwen. Copyright 2001 Estate of Henri Nouwen.
Preface Copyright 2001 Timothy Jones. Used with permission from Thomas Nelson
Publishing. www.thomasnelson.com
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