Already There: Letting God Find You - Softcover

Mossa S.J., Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0867167653 ISBN 13: 9780867167658

Publisher: Franciscan Media, 2010

Synopsis

If you are young (or young only in heart!) and attempting to discover who you are meant to be, Fr. Mark Mossa can help you find the ways God is already in your life. Mossa provides an honest and entertaining account of how he, as a younger adult, now a Jesuit priest, attempts to find God's will for his life. Mossa's friends tell him that he has a talent for making weird (they politely say different) connections. He responds that images, lyrics, and repeatedly quoted lines from popular culture stick with us because they connect with something deep down inside of us and say something meaningful about our human experience. We need only take some time to reflect on our experience--and that is what Mark Mossa helps us to do--and we'll see that God has already been trying to communicate with us in unexpected and surprising ways.

About this title

About the Author

Mark Mossa, S.J., a Jesuit priest, teaches, leads retreats, and offers spiritual direction to young adults.  Currently, God finds him in his colleagues, and in the students he teaches and ministers to at Fordham University in New York City.

From the Back Cover

"Mossa shows readers how to find God in all things--not just in prayer and worship services, but in your working life, in your relationships, and even in popular culture . . . You'll enjoy this book, I'm sure. What's more, I'm sure it will help you find your way closer to God."

--from the foreword by James Martin, S.J., author of My Life With the Saints and The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything

" . . . offers fresh and entertaining reflections that emphasize God's place in the messiness of life, a divine presence in the question marks, and grace in unexpected places."

--Therese Borchard, author of Beyond Blue

From the Inside Flap

"With the humor and grace of an old friend, and the wisdom and winsomeness of someone who knows you better than you know yourself, Mossa weaves popular culture, spiritual disciplines, and everyday life together so naturally that you forget you're reading. I opened this book, and God found me." --Kenda Creasy Dean, Professor of Youth, Church and Culture, Princeton Theological Seminary

"In our desires God speaks to us profoundly. Mossa wants us to pay a little closer attention to those desires, and in so doing to discover the ways that God has been diligently working to draw us closer to him and find our happiness." --Tim Muldoon, author of The Ignatian Workout and Longing to Love

"Reading Mossa's book is like having a good man--a good priest--come to your home to hang out with you for a bit . . . Readers are left with much hope and the desire to find God in the peaks and valleys of their own lives." --Mark E. Thibodeaux, S.J., author of God's Voice Within

Edition details

• Publisher: Franciscan Media
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0867167653
• ISBN 13: 9780867167658
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 151