Discovering Beauty in Foreign Places
By: Leeana Tankersley Format: Printed Caseside |
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Synopsis: Found Art is a collection of spiritually enriching, uplifting stories from the author’s life. These stories are insightfully woven around the seasons found in Ecclesiastes 3 and include birthing and dying, planting and harvesting, speaking and remaining silent, weeping and laughing, mourning and dancing, war and peace.
Click for product description and detailsISBN: 031029133X, ISBN-13: 9780310291336, UPC: 025986291334
Features: Discussion/Study Questions included
Suggested Uses: Spiritual GrowthAges: Adult
Related Product Types: Spiritual Formation
Endorsements for Found Art:“Leeana’s story is extraordinary, and so is her storytelling ability. As I finished Found Art, I felt like I had made a friend and that together we had traveled long distances, both around the world and into a deeper understanding of what it means to be a woman of faith—many different kinds of faith. Her story is at once so foreign and so familiar, because the power of her writing is so compelling.” —
Shauna Niequist, author of Cold Tangerines 
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Found Art is a collection of spiritually enriching, uplifting stories from the author’s life. These stories are insightfully woven around the seasons found in Ecclesiastes 3 and include birthing and dying, planting and harvesting, speaking and remaining silent, weeping and laughing, mourning and dancing, war and peace.
Description: Found Art is about seeing a certain beauty in an object, a beauty that isn’t inherently there on first glance. It requires vision, a look beyond what is to what could be.
Navigating a relationship with God in the midst of chaos, confusion, and disappointment can be disorienting. And though glimpses of God appear here and there, more often readers face the frustrating inability to find him in the midst of any of it.
But what if, like a found artist, God were busy creating something enduring from the scraps and the cast-offs? What if art is seen, not in spite of, but because of, the raw materials?
Through the lens of Ecclesiastes 3, Leeana Tankersley shows readers that sometimes they must let something die if they are ever going to be born again. Sometimes they must fight to keep their roots planted while life is trying desperately to uproot them. Sometimes they must mourn as grief is the only passage out of their pain. And sometimes they must go to war while in the very next moment they long for a day when peace is possible without it.
Any one of these scraps might be a discarded item, but collaged together, they become something entirely different. Art emerges from the carefully collaged odds and ends. God takes the unlikely moments of our lives and pieces them together into something of beauty and worth.
Book & Bible Cover Size: MediumPage Count: 224
Paper Edge Description: Plain
Size: 5.7 wide x 8.3 high x 0.8 deep in. | 145 wide x 211 high x deep 20 mm
Weight: 0.725 lb | 328 gms
Available: November 2009
WorldPublisher: Zondervan
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