The Winds of Homecoming: Transforming Loss and Loneliness into Solitude

The Winds of Homecoming: Transforming Loss and Loneliness into Solitude

by Christopher Goodchild
The Winds of Homecoming: Transforming Loss and Loneliness into Solitude

The Winds of Homecoming: Transforming Loss and Loneliness into Solitude

by Christopher Goodchild

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Overview

'It is rare for me to support a book that I feel confident is truly worth a reader’s attention and re-reading. It is beautifully crafted and full of a heart’s intelligence. Clearly it comes from years of experience and deep reflection. It will take you to a healing place in yourself and inspire you to live with all your talents and limitations.' Thomas Moore, author of Care of the SoulWritten in the true spirit of the wounded healer, The Winds of Homecoming draws from and is enriched by the poetry and writings of Rainer Maria Rilke. These fifty short meditative reflections offer you hope and inspiration to embrace your loss and loneliness, transforming what is limiting and restrictive into something freeing and infinitely expansive. Through his writing, Christopher Goodchild walks alongside us, not in his role as spiritual guide, but as a fellow-traveller, writing from a deeply human place of vulnerability. He does not just tell us how to sit in the contemplative fire and be transformed, he shows us. He shows us by the life he has lived, and continues to live. Christopher’s latest book, written with his characteristic lyricism and tender-hearted, compassionate observations on the human condition, is enhanced by four evocative woodcuts by Kent Ambler. Allow the Winds of Homecoming to guide you home.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781789045635
Publisher: Christian Alternative
Publication date: 12/01/2021
Pages: 168
Sales rank: 932,753
Product dimensions: 5.62(w) x 8.55(h) x 0.41(d)

About the Author

Christopher Goodchild is a Quaker, Ignatian spiritual director, teacher of the Alexander Technique and author of A Painful Gift and Unclouded by Longing. Based in London, he has a deep interest in eastern philosophy and the Christian contemplative tradition. He loves walking in both remote and urban areas and is known for writing from various locations in the wild. He is a keen supporter of Wealdstone, his childhood football team.

Table of Contents

Foreword Sheila Cassidy 1

Acknowledgements 3

Introduction 7

Part 1 Ah, not to be cut off 11

1 Loneliness 13

2 Stumbling into grace 15

3 Storehouses 17

4 The great storm 19

5 Embracing struggle 21

6 Between two worlds 23

7 An undefended life 25

8 Excuse me sir, I believe… 27

9 An amends to yourself 30

10 A dignified life 32

11 Touched by life 34

12 You, my own deep soul 36

Part 2 The inner-what is it? 39

13 Thou Art in calm and storm 41

14 Tenderising of the soul 43

15 By way of loss 45

16 An embodied life 47

17 As gently as a feather 49

18 What used to be a hindrance 52

19 The ear of your heart 54

20 A radical dependency 56

21 Home will bring you home 58

22 When curiosity becomes stronger than fear 60

23 The sacrament of tenderness 62

24 Until it takes 64

Part 3 Intensified sky 67

25 Intensified sky 69

26 Walking in the Light 71

27 A graceful elegance 73

28 A most tender knowing 75

29 Writing as a way of being 77

30 Heart-Work 79

31 Being love 81

32 An exquisite risk 83

33 Farewell 85

34 The Serenity Prayer 88

35 I love you, gentlest of Ways 90

36 A beautiful practice 92

37 The Way of a Pilgrim 94

Part 4 Homecoming 97

38 The Winds of Homecoming 99

39 A God hidden in Tenderness 101

40 A twilight dwelling 103

41 Unlearning your way back to God 105

42 That which is wide and timeless 107

43 Solitude as a way of being 109

44 "Be" the mystery at the crossroads 111

45 What has been whispered to you 113

46 Prayer of the heart 115

47 An anchored presence 117

48 A gathered silence 119

49 So tender 121

50 Rearranged by life 123

References 126

Further Reading 142

Copyright Acknowledgements 143

About the Author 145

Previous Titles 146

About Sheila Cassidy 148

About the Artist 149

Illustrations

Front Cover Avenue of Poplars at Sunset, 1884 Vincent van Gogh

1 A Long December woodcut, 2015 Kent Ambler 12

2 Buddha and Chickadee woodcut, 2019 Kent Ambler 40

3 Journey woodcut, 2015 Kent Ambler 68

4 Afterglow woodcut, 2020 Kent Ambler 98

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