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Synopsis: This is a book for those whose life is in a state of
change, who wait--though not for a clearly defined outcome--unsure
of where they are going or where they may be taken. Often the need
for change emerges within one of life's transitional periods: the
early years of parenthood, ill-health, unemployment, redundancy,
retirement, separation, divorce, or bereavement. These are those
whom Donald Eadie calls "Saturday People"--people in a wide variety
of circumstances learning what it can mean to wait within a
sustained, bewildering, or messy period of transition. There is a
long Saturday between the Friday of crucifixion and the Sunday of
resurrection. Periods of transition, particularly when we are in
pain or distress, are no time for easy answers or religious
cliches. Sustenance of a different kind is needed, coming from deep
roots and underground streams. Grain in Winter offers a series of
meditations and seed thoughts for those who find the waiting hard.
Donald Eadie is himself a Saturday person. He chose to learn about
life in a Yorkshire mill when his contemporaries went on to
university studies. Through marriage, Sweden is his second home. He
has often been in the firing line for advocating justice and
respect between people of all faiths, women and men, gay and
straight people. In recent years he has lived with a serious spinal
condition which forced him to retire early as Chairman of the
Birmingham District of the Methodist Church. He has not given up
being a much consulted Methodist minister, leading retreats and
writing about spirituality.
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