Looking for God in Messy Places, Jake Owensby
Looking for God in Messy Places, Jake Owensby
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Looking for God in Messy Places
A Book About Hope

Author: Jake Owensby

Narrator: William Sarris

Unabridged: 5 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/27/2021

Synopsis

"This is beautiful and brilliant stuff, profound and plain, incredibly human, wise and charming. I trusted and enjoyed every word." —Anne Lamott, New York Times bestselling author about Looking for God in Messy Places

Life is messy. We can get discouraged by setbacks, overwhelmed by busyness, and shaken by worry. Hope is the power that gets us out of bed in the morning and gives us the courage to face adversity. Looking for God in Messy Places by Jake Owensby is a book about hope. How to find it. How to practice it. How to grow in it. Hope begins when we recognize that God is in this mess with us.

This book is for anyone who has ever been frozen in place by loss or regret, anyone who has endured suffering, cruelty, or rejection. From word to word and page to page, listeners will experience themselves as God's beloved—so that they can be hopeful.

Topics include: the power of love to give us hope; the ways that God shows up in our daily lives; recognizing God's call in our lives; becoming your true self; having a sense of belonging; forming a friendship with Christ; and contemplative faith.

About Jake Owensby

Jake Owensby is the author of four books, including A Resurrection Shaped Life. He is the fourth Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Western Louisiana. Before his election as Bishop in 2012, he served as Dean of St. Mark's Cathedral in Shreveport. Prior to that, he was rector of Emmanuel Episcopal Church in metropolitan St. Louis, Missouri, and St. Stephen's in Huntsville, Alabama, and assistant rector for Christian Formation at St. Mark's in Jacksonville, Florida. Owensby is a graduate of the School of Theology at Sewanee, and was ordained to the diaconate and the priesthood in the Diocese of Florida. He has three adult children and lives in Alexandria, Louisiana, with his wife, Joy, and rescue pup, Gracie.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kadi

There is a study/reflection guide in the back of this book done by chapter. I didn’t realize this as I would have gone thru the questions after each chapter. It’s something I may go back to and do. This book is so well written and tackles giant concepts in ways that make it easy to grasp. I would pa......more

Goodreads review by Joanna

Owensby Messy Places A must read, especially during these times. Bishop Jake Owensby is indeed a gifted writer who speaks to all of us right where we are… in messy places.. Hope is so much what we need today, and this is what he offers. I have just finished Jon Meacham’s The Soul of America. I realiz......more

Goodreads review by Daniel

This was a mostly joyful book. It covered many hard situations but gave me new ideas about hope and vocation. This will speak mostly to Christian audiences, but maybe be of some value to other monotheistic faiths. The author is someone whose family, including his mom and him, has faced a lot of adve......more

Goodreads review by Jaci

A good one by my favorite Bishop [if one can have a favorite Bishop]. A Resurrection Shaped Life I enjoyed more. p.68: "Whether we realize it or not, whether we name it this way or not, something or someone becomes our god. ... Even if we make no conscious decision on the matter, our habitual actions......more

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