Meeting in the Margins: An Invitation to Encounter Society's Invisible People
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| Rating | : | 4.53 (847 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1631528165 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 188 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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"I was converted." according to Eloise. When you taste anything thinking it is something else, the taste is unwelcome. I anticipated a novel about the lives of the homeless. I am someone who stuffs my pocket with dollar bills when I walk the streets of San Francisco so that I don't have to root through my bottomless purse for my billfold when I e. spaddriverdavis said For those who like and do "feel good" charitable events. I sent this to my sister in law as a gift as she is involved in various help other organizations.Here is her response to my asking her how the book was going."1/"For those who like and do "feel good" charitable events" according to spaddriverdavis. I sent this to my sister in law as a gift as she is involved in various help other organizations.Here is her response to my asking her how the book was going."1/2 way through, yes I am totally enjoying and bless those massage therapists. Interesting perspective on homeless. It's a me book. Definitely have f. way through, yes I am totally enjoying and bless those massage therapists. Interesting perspective on homeless. It's a me book. Definitely have f. Such a great book! I picked it up in my local lifeisgreatinthe808 Such a great book! I picked it up in my local library, read it in a couple sittings, then promptly ordered one for my daughter to read. Touched me in a number of ways. Highly recommended read to understand homelessness on a deeper and more compassionate level.
She holds a master’s degree in theology (MTh) from Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley. Cynthia Trenshaw earned national certification as hospital chaplain and as massage therapist. Three of the chapters from Meeting in the Margins have been published in an anthology and a literary
A book that encourages readers to receive the generosity and reciprocity of the margins, Meeting in the Margins offers guidance for how we can all, as individuals, begin to repair the rift between the margins and the mainstream of societysimply by being profoundly present.. When Cynthia Trenshaw, recently widowed, moves to Berkeley, she thinks the reason she has transplanted herself is to earn her master’s degree in theology. But when, step by unexpected step, she is drawn into the cultural borderlands where society’s “invisible people” reside, she encounters dispossessed and demanding teachers not listed on any academic rosterand becomes immersed in a heady curriculum of helplessness and joy, wisdom and pain
In exquisite detail of both inner and outer moments of meeting on the streets, the reality of presence she evokes communicates through her stories; it sparks our own celebration of that precious sense of presence. Wheatley, author of So Far From Home, Perseverance, Turning to One Another, and Leadership and the New Science“Cynthia Trenshaw is a gifted writer, massage therapist and pilgrim who has chosen to journey with those who are the most vulnerable in our society. Trenshaw, a chaplain and massage practitioner with a degree in theology, shares her experiences seeking out these invisible men and women and offering them not only massage (relaxing for both body and mind) but the greater gift of affirming their 'realness' and 'worth.'”—Publishers Wee