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A review by capriciousreader
Field Notes for the Wilderness: Practices for an Evolving Faith by Sarah Bessey
5.0
Early in my journey of reconstructing my faith, I found voices in the wilderness to guide me. Rachel Held Evans. Jeff Chu. Kate Bowler. And Sarah Bessey. All spoke to the lost, confused, and floundering soul that needed to hear she wasn't alone, and somehow Sarah Bessey was the one who felt the most approachable. I have read and rejoiced in all of her work, but Field Notes for the Wilderness is something special.
Field Notes contains some of what her followers have been requesting for a long time. Do you stay or do you move on? What do you keep and what do you throw away? How exactly do you work out what you believe now? Make no mistake, Bessey doesn't have the answers, but she has processes. A self-confessed "expert at faithfully stumbling forward," Bessey shares multiple principles to use when living with an evolving faith like cultivating hope when it feels impossible, telling yourself the truth and learning to lament when you need to, going slowly on purpose cause it can be hard to wait for answers, and giving yourself permission to be happy. And most importantly, she's there to remind you that you can't escape God's love and that it is more beautiful, more expansive, and more beautiful than you ever knew.
So thankful for this book and for Sarah.
Field Notes contains some of what her followers have been requesting for a long time. Do you stay or do you move on? What do you keep and what do you throw away? How exactly do you work out what you believe now? Make no mistake, Bessey doesn't have the answers, but she has processes. A self-confessed "expert at faithfully stumbling forward," Bessey shares multiple principles to use when living with an evolving faith like cultivating hope when it feels impossible, telling yourself the truth and learning to lament when you need to, going slowly on purpose cause it can be hard to wait for answers, and giving yourself permission to be happy. And most importantly, she's there to remind you that you can't escape God's love and that it is more beautiful, more expansive, and more beautiful than you ever knew.
So thankful for this book and for Sarah.