Waiting for Bluebonnets: Letters to My Daughter About God's Love - Softcover

Lively, Robert D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0687346509 ISBN 13: 9780687346509

Publisher: Dimensions for Living, 2004

Synopsis

Waiting for Bluebonnets is a father’s tender offering to his adult daughter of a carefully crafted and emotionally provocative insight into the ordinary life lived fully, but imperfectly. Acutely aware of his diagnosis of life-threatening heart failure in September of 2001, this middle-aged ordained minister, pastoral counselor, newspaper columnist, and author treated his despair and fear in the way he knew best―by writing. This book contains the brief letters the author wrote to his daughter during the last days he expected to be on this earth, each of which contains a vignette rife with more meaning than first meets the reader’s eye. These letters work in harmony to create a mosaic bearing the proclamation of one man’s almost desperate need to tell his daughter of the redemptive power of love―God’s love―and how that love from God is the single force sufficiently powerful to deliver us from the destructive force of fear. A brief epilogue will provide details about the author’s miraculous recovery. This collection is intended for the spiritual adult who is willing to search beyond the easy answers and platitudes for the questions he or she is willing to pursue in the cause of spiritual growth.

About this title

About the Author:

Bob Lively is a certified pastoral counselor and an ordained Presbyterian minister. He is a regular newspaper columnist for the Austin American-Statesman. He is a native Texan from Dallas, with a baccalaureate degree from Austin College in Sherman, Texas, and Master of Divinity and Doctor of Ministry degrees from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Bob is a Fellow in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors. He is an award-winning short story writer and also has published eight nonfiction books. He is a frequent guest lecturer at churches and colleges in the Austin area. Bob served as an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA) for thirty years. For thirteen years he was an adjunct member of the faculty of Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Notable accomplishments during his inner-city ministry include the establishment of a soup kitchen for persons in need, a shelter for battered women, and an all-night shelter for persons without a home. Bob recently authored Waiting for Bluebonnets: Letters to My Daughter about God's Love a heartwarming insight into the ordinary life lived fully, but imperfectly. Bob and his wife, Mary Lynn Rice-Lively, live in Austin.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dimensions for Living
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0687346509
• ISBN 13: 9780687346509
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 180