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Fall to Grace (Hardcover)
Dave Bliss; As told to Stephen Copeland
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In Where the Colors Blend, Stephen Copeland's self-discovery and
God-discovery is told over a period of six years in the context of
an annual retreat to the Blue Ridge Mountains in Roanoke, Virginia,
where an obscure, forty-year-old church softball tournament takes
place each summer to raise funds for mission work in Paraguay. In
stepping into these stories, and sharing them with the reader,
Stephen simultaneously journeys deeper within himself, discovering
the divine in the process and taking readers deep into the throes
of doubt, deconstruction, and depression. But it's there, in the
darkness, that an authentic hope finds him. Throughout the
narrative, readers experience with Stephen a number of paradigm
shifts in the areas of: Spirituality: from exhausting oneself
trying to get close to God to simply abiding: awakening to who we
already are at the core of our beings as children of God.
Psychology: from suppressing emotions, pains, and insecurities to
curiously and non-judgmentally exploring them. Relationships: from
trying to change others or silently judging them to accepting
others as they are and learning from those who are most different
than ourselves: abandoning ignorance and arrogance. Art, writing,
and work: from being taunted by internal demands and a relentless
pursuit of perfection to simply enjoying the gift of the process.
Stephen's present-tense narrative, mysteriously unfolding all the
way, is free-thinking and free-flowing, swinging from humor to
complex theology, from someone else's story to sudden
introspectiveness and application, creating a unique experience for
readers as it challenges them to adopt their own lifestyle of
introspection and contemplation.
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