Table of Contents
Introduction: One inch above the ground 13
Part 1 Discovering Our Tuesday Home 21
1 Cities & Benches: An accidental sighting of the kingdom of God 23
2 Moments & Time: Counting the smallest day of the week 39
3 Gates & Cul-de-Sacs: Uncovering the home we bring with us 55
Part 2 Embracing Our Tuesday Work 69
4 Effort & Outcomes: The truest job description of every believer 71
5 Success & Envy: Accepting the importance of our right-now work 86
6 Stairwells & Stages: Learning to receive the gift of obscurity 98
Part 3 Finding Our Tuesday People 115
7 Community & Competition: Finding Safe Places to Feel Insecure 117
8 Children & Grown-Ups: An Invitation TO Move Downward with Gladness 131
9 Honesty & Maturity: Learning to Relate in the Power of the Spirit 143
Part 4 Accepting Our Tuesday Soul 157
10 Prayer & Questions: Making friends with the fog 159
11 Desire & Disappointment: Why clarity is overrated 171
12 Confession & Laughter: Why lightheadedness is the truest kind of miracle 183
Part 5 Seeing beyond Tuesday 203
13 Vision & Contentment: Learning to let love lead 205
14 Endings & Beginnings: Casting a hopeful vision for the future 218
15 Tuesday & Everything After: Living well in ordinary time 231
Note to Reader 243
Acknowledgments 244
Notes 247