Chasing God: One Woman's Magnificent Journey of Spirit

by Shirley Cunningham

This book is filled with personal yet universal stories of wisdom and faith. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0972057102
• ISBN13: 9780972057103
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Amoranita Publishing
• Length: 313 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

A Warm Read that Challenges and Nurtures

If you are looking for a book that shows the tensions between the real and the "expected," between the inner and the outer, between "chasing God" and "being chased" by God and then resolves those tensions by giving a spiritual vision of wholeness that embraces the paradoxes, then this book is for you. That is not to suggest that Chasing God is a metaphysical or philosophically dense treatise on life. The way the author writes about her relationships with family and friends; about the birth of her son; about the growing romance with her second husband ring so true that the reader experiences the relationship as well. Chasing God is a journey through one woman's life. It is a book written with clarity and beauty. Cunningham is particularly strong when she describes places. The reader is with her in her high school in Wisconsin, with her in the convent, with her in Spain, with her as she races to a doctor with her new friend Jerry who is suddenly and unexpectedly ill. Cunningham's reflections on being ill, herself, with cancer and her subsequent change in feeling about folks who are not fully well are worth the price of the book. Likewise, this book is for those who are, at heart, artists and for whom the daily responsibilities of life have squeezed the artist thin. Cunningham, through her own experience, challenges the reader to nurture the creative within and shows the connections between creativity, spirituality, and healing. For many of us used to looking for reality "outside," the author of this book asserts not only that the really real is out there, but that the "real thing comes from inside" as well and challenges us to listen.------------------------------------------------------------------------

Sometimes you just have to show up!

Ms. Cunningham's life journey helped to reinforce in my own life that all things happen for a reason and sometimes you just have to BE, simple but powerful. If you show up God will put you on your destined path. Well worth it!

Informative, inspiring, well written

Shirley Cunningham has given an insight into the convent life (at least, what she experienced) that many will find fascinating. She deals honestly with issues that most of us would prefer to avoid sharing with strangers. The Epilogue articulates an understanding, it seems to me, of what spirituality is.

View from the Top

God is certainly watching Shirley and watching over her. As a child of God, Shirley obviously knows that no one can be against us or defeat us when He is with us. She offers such insight and detail into her own life, yet protects the privacy of those who have interacted with her closely. She does it with style, grace and dignity. Her book may give anyone who reads it the insight and courage to look introspectively into their own lives, pray to our God for His direction and follow the light to the home prepared for us by our heavenly Father. A work displaying vulnerability and done with class. God Bless you always Shirley!

A memorable journey of opening one's soul to the Divine

Chasing God is the profoundly insightful story of Shirley Cunningham, who grew up Catholic as a young girl, spent time in a convent, married, became a mother, divorced, and battled with breast cancer. Shirley's quest to understand the love and gentleness of a God far greater than any institution created around him, makes for a profoundly spiritual tale, embellished with her accounts of dreams, encounters with angels, and revealing a memorable journey of opening one's soul to the Divine. Chasing God is recommended reading for students of spirituality and a recommended addition to Christian Studies supplemental reading lists.