What's Here Now?: How to Stop Rehashing the Past and Rehearsing the Future--and Start Receiving the Present

What's Here Now?: How to Stop Rehashing the Past and Rehearsing the Future--and Start Receiving the Present

What's Here Now?: How to Stop Rehashing the Past and Rehearsing the Future--and Start Receiving the Present

What's Here Now?: How to Stop Rehashing the Past and Rehearsing the Future--and Start Receiving the Present

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Overview

Life is filled with uncertainty, and people have never needed peace more. When it comes down to it, what keeps us from experiencing peace in our lives is either living in the past or living for the future. When we obsess over what's already happened or put all of our efforts into creating a picture-perfect tomorrow, we miss what God has for us here and now. The result is regret over what we can't change, and anxiety over what we feel we must change. That's not what God wants for us.

With honest transparency, hope-filled compassion, and plenty of vulnerable humor, pastor Jeanne Stevens reveals the shockingly simple path to peace: presence. She helps you slow down, center yourself, and ask the all-important question, What's here now? Jeanne gives readers practical tools to move from obsessing about the past or worrying about the future to experiencing peace and purpose in the present moment.

By incorporating this simple question into your everyday life, you will experience freedom from unhealthy patterns of relating to God and others through the avenues of shame, guilt, worry, and anxiety.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780800740856
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Publication date: 05/17/2022
Pages: 256
Sales rank: 1,132,100
Product dimensions: 5.60(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Jeanne Stevens is the founding and colead pastor of Soul City Church in Chicago, one of America's fastest growing urban churches. Prior to starting Soul City Church, Stevens was on the pastoral staff at Willow Creek Community Church and North Point Community Church. A sought-after speaker, leader, and writer, Jeanne's passion is to help people wake up to their purpose as they pursue a life of wholehearted freedom. She lives in Chicago with her husband, Jarrett, and their two children. Learn more at www.jeannestevens.com.

Table of Contents

Foreword Shauna Niequist 13

Introduction 17

Part 1 Rehashing the Past

1 Blame: I Take Thee to Be My Life Coach 27

2 Shame: Who Told You? 41

3 Grief: Chutes and Ladders 59

4 Bitterness: She Let Go 73

5 Guilt: Backpacking 87

Part 2 Rehearsing the Future

6 Worry: Turn It Down 101

7 Denial: The Elephant in the Room 115

8 Pretending: Hide and Seek 131

9 Obligation: Check Please 143

10 Waiting and Control: Waiting Rooms 155

Part 3 Receiving the Present

11 Emotions: All the Feels 171

12 Thoughts: Crowded Runways 187

13 Body: Thank-You Notes 203

14 Gratitude: Squeezed 215

15 Belonging: In-To-Me-See 227

Acknowledgments 245

Notes 247

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