You Are a Tree: And Other Metaphors to Nourish Life, Thought, and Prayer Author Cynthia Heald Trained counselor and mother Melissa

Trained counselor and mother Melissa Hannigan knows how hard it is to cast and keep a vision of rich family life

writing in our own time and place (rather than the fourteenth century of Julian of Norwich or the twentieth of Thomas Merton)

Muehlhoff and Langer provide lessons from conflict theory and church history on how to avoid the dangers of groupthink and how to negotiate differing biblical convictions to avoid church splits and repair interpersonal ruptures

Ronald Sider

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You Are a Tree: And Other Metaphors to Nourish Life, Thought, and Prayer Author Cynthia Heald Trained counselor and mother Melissa"That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither whatever they do prospers." Psalm 1: 3Sometimes we describe ourselves as trees. When we're thriving, we speak of being rooted and fruitful, in a good season. When we struggle, we might describe ourselves as withering, cut off from friendship and the world. These ways of describing ourselves matter because they shape the ways we