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Earthy Mysticism : Spirituality for Unspiritual People by Tex Sample is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Earthy Mysticism : Spirituality for Unspiritual People about?

This book, says the author, is “a testimony of narratives where [a] strange God appears. Such appearances supply the mystical states that have come to shape my life. I am not helped much by conventional approaches to spirituality. I find it almost impossible to do ‘devotions.'Daily Bible study in the sense of devoting twenty to thirty minutes a day never worked for me. I cannot get around to scheduled times for prayer on my knees with head bowed. I find labyrinths and prayer beads boring. I am ever and again distracted in silent meditation. I simply cannot sustain a spirituality based in such things. “I do not regard myself as unusual or special. My hunch, and it is more than that, is that a host of people will recognize themselves in what I describe here. What is here is, clearly, my story, but it is not about me. It is about a God of surprises, of One who comes in the ordinary and the seamy. It is about a God who will goose you. It is about mystical moments when clearly the only thing that finally matters is this God who will never leave us alone, especially in the ordinary and angular places of life. It is, I hope, a spirituality for unspiritual people.” From the Circuit Rider r

Who reads Earthy Mysticism : Spirituality for Unspiritual People?

Author

Tex Sample

Publisher

Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780687649891

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Religion, Christian, Fiction

Rating

4.38 / 5 (43 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14