Table of Contents
Foreword Shauna Niequist 11
Introduction: Restless 15
Part 1 Too Tight
1 On Opening Up 21
2 Held 29
3 Donations for Those Less Fortunate 36
4 Scared-Sacred 46
5 You Are the One You Have Been Waiting For 52
Part 2 Brave in the Becoming
6 Let the Dead Trees Go 61
7 You Weren't Consulted 69
8 Do Not Feed the Stray Cats 74
9 Surrounded by a Great Cloud of Witnesses in Target 83
10 Bullying vs. Believing 88
Part 3 Holy Awakening
11 A Threshold 99
12 Bring Her to Me 106
13 Love Is the Fuel 111
14 This Is the Work We Are Doing 115
15 Speak Louder 123
16 Around My Neck 130
Part 4 On the Other Side of Surrender
17 To Give Back 139
18 I Become Myself 145
19 Maybe There's Not That Much to Do After All 151
20 Rituals of Rest 157
21 Twilight Comes Twice 163
Epilogue: Practices for Beginning Again 169
Acknowledgments 183
Notes 185