Being Home: Discovering the Spiritual in the Everyday

By Gunilla Norris and Gunilla Norris

Book Overview

This classic book of meditations is an eloquent celebration of the spirituality of everyday objects and activities. Daily routines such as making the bed, reading the newspaper, sweeping the floor, and cooking supper are illuminated by examining their relationship to the Divine. Beginning with the first stirrings of consciousness in the morning, passing through the ordinary tasks of a day at home, and ending with bedtime benediction, Gunilla Norris gently reminds us that nothing is too common to speak to us. In the tradition of lectio divina, each meditation's subject is closely, contemplatively examined. Being Home is not only a beautiful collection of household meditations but also an important essay on how and why we should work toward simplicity-materially, socially, and spiritually. The meditations are complemented by Greta Sibley's small photographs of familiar objects, which both mirror and interpret the text.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1587680149
• ISBN13: 9781587680144
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: HiddenSpring
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.9" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Being Home

I have bought this book several times. I love it so much I've given many copies away to friends. This last copy is for myself. And I was very satisfied with this shopping experience. Thanks!

An amazing book

There's a long tradition in Celtic religious language of finding a way to turn even the smallest and most ordinary activities into meditation or prayer. We find it charming when we read the results in the context of mowing hay or bringing in the cows, but it's hard to imagine it in the context of today's daily round. Gunilla Norris has managed to do it -- for such things as paying bills and doing the laundry and setting the alarm -- and it's a marvel. The book is indispensable, and it is an extra bonus that it's beautifully designed and produced and so well-made that you'll be able to pass it on to your children and grandchildren. It has my highest recommendations.

This book is very, very special.

The pictures and the accompanying text are inspiring and absolutely perfect together so that the overall effect of this book is impossible to describe in words. Get it, read it again and again for the rest of your life, and you'll see what I mean.