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Title: Abandonment to Divine Providence by Jean-Pierre De Caussade, John Beevers ISBN: 0-385-46871-7 Publisher: Doubleday Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.65 (17 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: It's about TRUST
Comment: My review is definitely influenced by the other reviews that I read. You can certainly tell those folks who live in their heads from those folks who live in their hearts. If you live in your head, you live in your own will. These folks have points and counterpoints, categories and subcategories, notes of historical interest, arguments and objections. Though they are just the ones who need the message of this book, they are the ones most resistant, the ones to completely miss the point. Our wills are not easily subdued. We identify our being with "our doing," "our opinions," "our judgments." We think that "me" equals "my will," "my way," "my view." These folks line up to inform God just how His Creation should run and, no doubt, they have very good arguments. ...This is not to demean the life of the mind, although it may sound that way. ... As Jean-Pierre de Caussade says, "The use of our reason and other faculties is profitable only when it serves as an instrument of God's activity." All too often the mind wants to serve as the instrument of its own and solely its own activity. So this book is not about fatalism or passivity. It's about TRUST. It's about believing that although all appears to be lost, God is working. It's about HOPE. It's about faith in yourself, though you appear to be a pretty poor instrument of goodness, God is using you---as much as you allow yourself to live in your heart. We fight, we struggle, we lose, or so we think. There are more than enough knocks in the most humdrum life. But everyday we get up, dust our bruised bodies off, and say a small prayer under our breath, "Not my will, But Yours." ...
Rating: 5
Summary: Reveals how God can lead people in very different paths.
Comment: Some people are called to a life of pure faith where they will only know the darkness of God. Others are called to a life fo pure love where the will often experience God's presence. Caussade says that both paths can be equal before God. The challenge of following Christ is not to replicate another's experience but to allow the Holy Spirit to guide me. I learn to yield to God's divine will in each moment. This book should never be confused with quietism, which suggest I can do nothing but wait before God. Caussade suggests some are called to active lives and some are called to lives of stillness. We are all called to pursue the Lord by yielding to the SPirit in the present moment. I find this book an excellent companion to Martin Buber's I and Thou.
Rating: 4
Summary: Excellent spiritual book that balances contemporary thought
Comment: What is Divine Providence? Shakespeare writes that "there is a divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them how we will." (Hamlet) This book expands on the theme of allowing providence to shape our ends and trusting in the wisdom of providence.
Taken on its own, this book may inspire some readers to be passive regarding life's outcomes, as other reviewers have suggested, but we read this in light of so much contemporary preaching and Christian writing about being proactice and successful and prosperous and "blessed" in all we decide to do that reading this book gives us a different view that will provide balance to our spiritual lives. It is a view of contentment at the feet of God, a view of trusting in God's presence and compassion. I was thrilled while reading this book. It is a book to inspire us all to sit at Jesus' feet and listen to him, as Mary did, rather than asking Jesus to bless our busyness from a distance.
One must remember that this is a book of compiled letters to nuns and notes for lectures to a similar audience. These are exhortations to nuns who have devoted their lives to Christ. The casual Christian may find the exhortations extreme and that they do not fit into our Christian America mindset. The structure of the book does create a more laborious read than modern books that flow better due to proper formatting.
I recommend this book as I recommend Imitation of Christ by Thomas a'Kempis. They are books that are relevant and I think necessary to modern Christians, especially those caught up in the "Purpose-Driven Life" movement. I bought a copy for my pastor to read, because we plainly do not hear of this kind of devotion today. It is not a movement but a sacrificial life the author promotes.
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Title: Sacrament of the Present Moment, The by Jean-P De Caussade ISBN: 0060618116 Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco Pub. Date: 03 May, 1989 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Practice of the Presence of God: With Spiritual Maxims by Brother Lawrence ISBN: 0800785991 Publisher: Revell Pub. Date: 01 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Self Abandonment to Divine Providence by Jean-Pierre De Caussade ISBN: 0895553120 Publisher: T A N Books & Publishers Pub. Date: 01 June, 1987 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
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Title: Trustful Surrender to Divine Providence: The Secret to Peace and Happiness by Jean Baptiste Saint-Jure, Saint Claude de la Colombiere ISBN: 0895552167 Publisher: Tan Books & Publishers Pub. Date: 01 June, 1983 List Price(USD): $7.00 |
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Title: Interior Castle by St. Teresa of Avila, E. Allison Peers ISBN: 0385036434 Publisher: Image Pub. Date: 01 February, 1972 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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