Room for Good Things to Run Wild
How Ordinary People Become Every Day Saints
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- Expected Feb 11, 2025
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Publisher Description
Room for Good Things to Run Wild is the antidote to widespread Christian malaise. If you feel like life is happening to you, that your faith has been reduced to trite platitudes, and that no matter how many new things you try, you still end up with a dissatisfying Christian life, this book offers relief from the mediocrity of Christian living through the sacred and satisfying journey of becoming an every day saint.
After spending too many days staring at the hamster cage of his uninspired life through the bottom of a glass of Scotch, Josh Nadeau knew there were only 2 ways left to go: further down or finally up. Disillusioned by his faith and disenchanted by the world around him, Josh chose up out of a desperation to discover the Jesus who had formed the saints of old.
Steeped in literature and doctrine, art and raw daily life and accompanied by original illustrations and living liturgy this book will bring you on the journey back to an embodied theology that understands that we know, not just with our minds, but also with our bodies. From Canada, to England, to Ireland and Spain, Josh follows the Jesus Way, teaching you how to be just as honest about the pain of your life as the pleasure of your life.
Rediscover the full and wild world that God has created for you in the way He has created you to experience it. Room for Good Things to Run Wild is a call into the Holy Ordinary; a new way to see that wakes the soul and satisfies the body.
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Artist Nadeau debuts with a vulnerable if sometimes overwrought account of overcoming addiction. A high-powered banker with a leadership position at his church, the author spent years struggling with an emptiness that neither drinking nor an increasingly hollow faith could fill. After hitting rock bottom, he left banking and took a string of odd jobs as he set about repairing his life. Therapy helped him realize he'd been wanting a closer connection with God, which he nurtured through an "embodied life" of serving others, decentering the self, and finding goodness in the everyday (ordinary routines like going to work, he writes, imbue "that which is finite and temporal" with virtue). Most evocative are the author's meditations on the emotionally numbing experience of addiction, which he describes as akin to "being unable to participate in the Fullness of the world around me." Unfortunately, his insights become fuzzier the further he strays from his own lived experience, as when he suggests that readers facing their own crises should "listen to the Hidden Music" and "have courage enough to follow it wherever it may lead." The result is an intermittently insightful testament to the life-saving power of faith.
