Finding Our Way Forward: When the Children We Love Become Adults - Hardcover

Springer Mock, Melanie

 
9781513810607: Finding Our Way Forward: When the Children We Love Become Adults
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 151381060X ISBN 13: 9781513810607
Publisher: Herald Press, 2023

Synopsis

When our children turn 18, we hope to happily launch them into the world to become the adults we’ve been preparing them to be. Their pathway seems clear: most will go to college, find a vocation and then a true love, and settle into a comfortable life while we parents keep in touch through occasional phone calls, family gatherings, and surprise trips home for Christmas. But now more than ever, these expectations fail to acknowledge the significant challenges faced by many young people, from a pandemic to racial unrest to a climate crisis that is setting the world on fire, figuratively and literally.
 
While young people are consistently told they need to discern God’s calling, in Finding Our Way Forward, Melanie Springer Mock draws on her decades as a college professor and mom to four adult children to explore how finding our way means developing a more expansive understanding of calling for ourselves and for the young adults we love, one that moves beyond vocation and capitalistic enterprises to what God really calls us to: Seeking justice. Loving mercy. Walking with humility. Loving others. Loving God. As we do so, our relationships can be transformed as together we find our way forward.
 

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About the Author

Melanie Springer Mock is a professor of English at George Fox University and the author or editor of five books, including If Eve Only Knew. Her essays and reviews have appeared in The Nation, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Christian Feminism Today, Brain, Child, Literary Mama, and Her.Meneutics, among others. She and her husband and sons live in Dundee, Oregon.

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When our children turn 18, we hope to happily launch them into the world to become the adults we’ve been preparing them to be. Their pathway seems clear: most will go to college, find a vocation and then a true love, and settle into a comfortable life while we parents keep in touch through occasional phone calls, family gatherings, and surprise trips home for Christmas. But now more than ever, these expectations fail to acknowledge the significant challenges faced by many young people, from a pandemic to racial unrest to a climate crisis that is setting the world on fire, figuratively and literally.
 
While young people are consistently told they need to discern God’s calling, in Finding Our Way Forward, Melanie Springer Mock draws on her decades as a college professor and mom to four adult children to explore how finding our way means developing a more expansive understanding of calling for ourselves and for the young adults we love, one that moves beyond vocation and capitalistic enterprises to what God really calls us to: Seeking justice. Loving mercy. Walking with humility. Loving others. Loving God. As we do so, our relationships can be transformed as together we find our way forward.
 

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Publisher
Herald Press
Publication date
2023
Language
English
ISBN 10 
151381060X
ISBN 13 
9781513810607
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
208

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