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Check out Lynne E. Chandler’s
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EMBRACING A CONCRETE DESERT
A Spiritual Journey Toward Wholeness
Lynne E. Chandler
Embracing a Concrete Desert: A Spiritual Journey Towards
Wholeness is a book of reflections on inner themes of
spirituality. It is a step into the Middle East through a
western woman’s eyes and heart. Metaphors of desert wilderness,
camel caravans and fresh water springs mingle with big city
concrete, smog and poverty. Biblical images come to life on
Moses’ shores of the Nile and the sheltering of Jesus’ family as
refugees.
Woven
throughout its pages are poems, “formed in concrete,” musing and
celebrating the Creator and creation. It is a journey of depth,
despair, survival and acceptance of living in the present
moment, some days soaring and others plummeting, yet all a part
of the gift of life.
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BOOK by Paul-Gordon Chandler
IN SEARCH OF A PROPHET:
A Spiritual Journey in the Steps of Kahlil Gibran, author of The
Prophet
Kahlil Gibran's self-portrait
Paul-Gordon Chandler has begun
research on a book that will focus on the spiritual
journey of Kahlil Gibran, the early 20th century
Lebanese writer and mystic of Christian background (best
known in the West for his book "The Prophet"). The book
is currently going by the working title, In
Search of a Prophet: A Spiritual Journey in the
Steps of Kahlil Gibran, author of “The Prophet”.
The book will trace Kahlil
Gibran's spiritual development and highlight what his
spiritual journey and literary and artistic work have to
offer us today in our current global crises. The
research for this book will include visiting the places
integral to Gibran's life journey…various places in
Lebanon, Boston, Paris, London, New York City, and
Savannah, Georgia (where the largest collection of
Gibran paintings is held). The depth of Gibran's
spirituality was profound and his journey and work have
much to offer us at this moment in time.
In this regard, Paul-Gordon
began his research by visiting the snowy mountains of
Lebanon, up near the great Cedar forest, where he
visited the Kahlil Gibran Museum, in the village of
Bscharri, Kahlil Gibran’s birthplace. His research for
the book has taken him from Lebanon to the cities of
Paris, London, Savannah, New York City, Boston and
Mexico City!
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