Shannon's Recipe for Life

BOOKS THAT BRING HEAVEN TO EARTH

Georges Bernanos “Diary of a Country Priest”

“All is grace”

G.K. Chesterton “Man Who Was Thursday”

“Everything is related in romance”

G.K. Chesterton “Orthodoxy”

“Life is a romance and a fairy tale, and it is the conclusion of the spiritually wise that find this”

Letters of Van Gogh:

“beauty is everywhere”

Rainier Maria Rilke “Letters to a Young Poet”

“Love your life”

Antoine de Saint Exupéry “The little prince”

“Don’t accept what you are given”

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky “Brothers Karamazov”

Especially Zosìma and Alyosha

“Abandonment to Love of Everything”

Frederick Buechner “Godric”

The gospel as fairytale, embracing the emotional and sensual richness of your life

C.S. Lewis “Till We Have Faces”

“Every time I read it, I get more, but there is so much to it and it is still a mystery.

Marva Dawn “Powers, Weakness, and the Tabernacling of God”

“Our weakness is not a voluntary weakening of our strengths, but weakness is at the end of our strengths, and God is there.”

Erwin McManus “Barbarian Way”

“The call of the Christian is to tenacious freedom and action”