Description
Book SynopsisIn TRUSTING CHANGE, minister and award-winning writer of Writing to Wake the Soul, Karen Hering offers pastoral support and spiritual skills building for individuals on the cusp of personal change within the collective context of a world that is reshaping itself at a faster pace than ever. The book's ten thresholding skills give readers practical tools for living on the threshold and through change, but this is not a typical "how-to" guide and its beautifully written and evocative language will connect readers with their own deeper consciousness. From the book's first page, the reader is greeted by a warm storyteller ready to journey with them through uncertainty and change. Hering does not pretend that change is easy but notes its inevitability and some of the ways readers can participate in it, allowing them to trust it more in the future. Sharing wisdom found in nature and in metaphors, the reflections include evocative questions and creative, often embodied exercises that invite the reader into a larger story of change. This book is a conversation with the reader meant to also stir conversations between readers as we learn to live into and through our transformative times together.
Trade Review“This book has come just in time, reminding us that our own capacity for transformation is as mighty as the roiling upheavals of these uncertain times. Trusting Change faces global loss and crisis without flinching, but also, with compassion, the twists and turns that come to all of us, both welcome or unbidden, the blessings and sorrows comprising every human life. Karen Hering is a wise and generous guide, providing writing prompts, meditations, queries and stories, inviting us to look within and also beyond, for courage, strength and trustworthy hope. This is a book to read quietly, by yourself, when change and loss come crashing down, and it is a book to read together, in circles of mutual support, building together the creative communities that keep us resilient and brave. In these pages we remember what changes we’ve already weathered. Trusting Change insists that our wisdom is old and deep, nimble, collective, and constantly evolving.” —Victoria Safford, author of Walking Toward Morning and With or Without Candlelight
“Trusting Change spoke to me at a time when the world seems dark and uncertain and hope seems to evaporate without a trace. It opened the eyes of my heart to see what is deep inside the chrysalis: life wiggling and squirming in the mass of goo, which has rekindled my flickering hope. Our journey may encounter obstacles along the way, but we can trust that life finds a way when all roads seem closed. Let’s continue the journey of transformation with Trusting Change on your side!” —Eleazar S. Fernandez, author of Burning Center, Porous Borders and President of the Union Theological Seminary, Philippines
Table of ContentsPrologue
Introduction
How to Use This Book
Beginning Here
NO LONGER
1. Letting Go
2. Grieving
3. Practicing Equanimity
THE PAUSE
4. Taking Part in Stillness
5. Navigating the Unknown
6. Preparing for the Journey
7. Claiming Companions
NOT YET
8. Moving On
9. Imagining a Way
10. Widening What We Trust
Honoring Our Journey
