Grace Period: My Ordination to the Ordinary, by Melinda Worth Popham
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Grace Period: My Ordination to the Ordinary, by Melinda Worth Popham
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Author Melinda Worth Popham left home for Yale Divinity School at age fiftysix after a barrage of painful life events-above all, the nightmare of her teenage daughter's lifethreatening depression. These events brought her to her knees, and a monastic method of meditation became her mainstay as well as her portal to the holy.
This memoir, Grace Period, tells the story of one mother's experience of a daughter's intractable illness and the discovery that pain is the Miracle Gro of spiritual growth. The radical, mystical experience that ultimately propelled Popham to Yale Divinity School at a pivotal juncture in her life did not lead to the pursuit of latecall ordination to the ministry, but quite simply to her study of God. What she discovered, though, in the course of her two years there, was that, for her, encountering God happened beyond the study of theology at an Ivy League seminary. It came from her extracurricular encounters with offleash dogs, a shining meadow, bad neighbors, and fierce loneliness. Grace Period is not only about Popham's study of God, but about God's education of her. Grace Period: My Ordination to the Ordinary, by Melinda Worth Popham- Amazon Sales Rank: #206418 in Books
- Published on: 2015-11-25
- Released on: 2015-11-25
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .66" w x 6.00" l, .86 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 264 pages
About the Author
Melinda Worth Popham earned a BA from the University of Chicago and MAs from Yale Divinity School and Stanford. Her previous book, Skywater, was named an American Library Association Notable Book. She has two adult children and lives in Los Angeles. This is Popham's third book.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Beautiful and moving memoir By PacificCoastMom This story of one woman's spiritual journey through the dark night of the soul was achingly honest, gently funny, and full of of of amazing, stop-I-need-to-highlight-this quotes. Anchored by her spiritual musings, this memoir is an alternately delightful and compelling read: it is simply remarkable the way it never once descends into preachiness yet gently offers the reader multiple opportunities to gain his or her own greater understanding of the divine presence.While at one level, this is a recounting of the events that came to pass so that Popham finds herself at Yale's Divinity school, in a way, it is as much a love letter to her children, especially her daughter, as anything else. While Popham's story is uniquely her own, the author speaks with such sincerity that it touches on some universals about the depths and complexities of a mother's love and experience, the adoration and, at times, complete helplessness a mother feels for her child. Reading it, I think, has helped me to better understand my relationship with my own mother and also to be a better mother to my children. I highly recommend this book.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. A Tall Order By Jenny Lawrence I read Melinda Popham's journey through divorce and her daughter's profound depression that eventually leads the author to Yale Divinity School with complete absorption...identifying, admiring, laughing out loud, loving the abundant particulars and the seamless riffs through time and back again. The words (recursively, oblate, Yahrzeit), the ideas (probing darkness, showing faith, centering prayer), the quotes (Merton, Ruskin, Yeats, Kenyon, Browning) are woven together by the author into an astonishing, intelligent, stunning story.Boy can she write! Here's a wonderful line: “The two-steps forward, one-back progress of my spiritual path resembled the silt-weighted, goose-necked river that geologists term an “entrenched meander”....And this one on, of all things, a pilot light: “To this day, whenever I come across a reference to the 'divine spark' or 'inner light,' I picture that little lick of flame, that stubby blue nubbin, that tiny eternal flame steadfastly burning away in that ancient oven’s innermost recesses”....And this: “Loneliness had the muscle to make me feel flimsy, miserable, unworthy, forgotten, and unloved”....Popham portrays her children with intensity, generosity, and caring. Bravo to their giving her the go-ahead to re-experience and articulate these painful times.At one point a woman at her gym expresses admiration to Popham for going off to Yale Divinity School at age 56, calling it "adventurous and brave and tall." It is true. Melinda Popham has done something very tall in giving us GRACE PERIOD.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. she picked herself up by imagining the Good Shepherd’s crook helping her to her feet and nudging ... By Appreciative Athiest Grace Period does the near impossible: in her witty, delightfully irreverent, twangy Kansas City prose, Popham takes you with her into the very heart of religious experience. You don’t have to have a religious bone in your body (I don’t) to identify with someone who gives up anxiety for Lent! Or who can laugh at her misery, as in: “Professor Fassler had told us that when she felt depleted, she picked herself up by imagining the Good Shepherd’s crook helping her to her feet and nudging her along. The way I was feeling that day, it would have taken something more along the lines of cocktails and dinner with Jesus at a seaside restaurant in Galilee to get me up to speed.”Popham’s writing is so vivid, you are there, experiencing the stakes, the struggles, wrong turns, and depths her spiritual journey. What a journey it is, beginning with a marriage and motherhood crisis so gripping it might have been a book on its own, except that, as Popham learns: “it’s the hard blessing of sorrows that bring you to your knees.” And so beautifully put about herself and her classmates at Div School, “It was when we were in extremis, our lives brought to a beveled edge, that God had graciously manifested himself to us in some indubitable way.” Grace Period highlights the sacred in ordinary life. Readers might see it in her prose as well.
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