Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life

By Michael C. Hardy

Book Overview

Shauna Niequist calls us to see the beauty, hope, and dimension in our ordinary days through the life-giving practice of celebration. Cold Tangerines is beautiful narration of Shauna's journey as a young writer, wife, and mom making peace with herself and crafting a life that celebrates the extraordinary moments hidden in the everyday. Throughout each story echoes the heartbeat message that the normal, daily life ticking by on our streets and sidewalks, at our dinner tables and in our late-night talks--is the most precious thing any of us will ever experience. With her signature warmth and vulnerable storytelling, Shauna offers a feast of thoughtful reflections on the small moments that make up the human experience, the spiritual life, and things that seem ordinary but just might be sacred after all. She invites us into a new way of living with the awareness of God's movement gracing every part of our day.Both a voice of challenge and song of comfort, this gallery of celebration encourages us to turn our attention to the marvelous life happening right under our noses. Join Shauna in this heartfelt and hopeful call upward to a new way of being, where there's room to breathe, to rest, to break down, and break through to the best possible life. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0310329302
• ISBN13: 9780310329305
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Zondervan
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.6" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up

Customer Reviews

Why Five Stars?

For me, several criteria must be met before I'll consider the highest review rating for a book, movie, or piece of music. For instance, if reading a collection of words causes me to put a book down, get up from where I'm seated and wander around the room because I don't know what to do with the emotions that have slipped past all the safe guards and invaded my soul, then there is something significant about the one who penned...

Am Eating it Up!

Cold Tangerines celebrates the rawness and reality of life amidst the amazing wonders God provides daily, if we just look (taste, feel, see, touch). Thanks for helping me contemplate my soul more and feel encouraged that even when life is hard (as it will be), there is so much authenticity, intimacy and joy offered. I loved "basement," and laughed as I'm your "other" kind of friend but NOT my basement (i'm like YOU and felt...

An Afternoon Well Spent

I got Cold Tangerines in the mail from a friend two days ago and sat down to read for twenty minutes. Six hours later--and after migrations from my favorite comfy chair to the kitchen table to the car (not the safest way to read, admittedly) to my bed--I closed the book and felt just as embraced and understood and satisfied with the ride as I was terrifically annoyed that it was over. Shauna's entries made me grin that knowing...

Delicious.

I am in awe of people who are brave enough to be gut-level honest with complete strangers by writing down the truth about themselves for all to read. Sometimes the details are too stark and too raw; after a while you just can't read any more. But then there are people like Shauna, who can weave truth, be it beautiful or ugly, with heart-breaking prose that is lovely, simple, clean, and, well, lovely. Yes, it deserves to be...