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Come Sit a Spell
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ISBN:
0-7414-5782-2
©2010
Price:
$14.95
Book Size:
5.5'' x 8.5''
, 232 pages
Category/Subject:
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
Passionate, politically bold, and spiritually challenging, providing applications for the living of these days. How an Appalachian father inspires his son to become a compassionate pastor with love for people and the earth.
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Abstract:
Warm memories and reflections of an Appalachian father who shaped the very life of his youngest son, who as a retired Presbyterian Pastor sees, in retrospect, the manner in which his father so greatly influenced his ministerial, political and social life. Stories are told from the author's childhood and throughout his ministry that can only stretch the reader's heart and mind toward greater personal and spiritual growth. Poems at the beginning and ending of each chapter have come from the author when words were mute, leaving silence, demonstrating fro where words come. Just like in Appalachia the reader is invited to sit a spell. While reading, listening and explore life in its fullest.
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Customer Reviews
The challenges from 'Come Sit a Spell'
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05/16/2010
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Reviewer:
Jerry Shields
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I have just finished the book, ‘Come Sit a Spell’, by Thomas Frazier and really enjoyed it.
The book caused me to reflect on my ‘growing up days’ and, to ponder them. I find that I miss the smaller town where I grew up in Western PA where we knew a lot of people, and church groups joined together, and we could just ‘drop in’ and ‘come sit a spell’ with people. Things seemed less hectic and the emphasis was on something other than making money, making more of it, and acquiring things. And so it was good to read, think, and be challenged to operate differently. Even after my retirement (I am there now) I believe I can do a better job of ‘sitting a spell’.
While I did not resonate with all the psychology, I did like the stories and ‘seeing myself’ in them; they presented a challenge to the way I live today. Asking the question of, ‘How do we hear the Lord, if we are spending all our time doing and rushing to and fro or as Tom says, “…filling our time with so much noise” was a gentle, yet strong reminder of what we need to do or not do. Are we not all called to be in a ‘commune’ where we can be in community, communicate with one another, and receive communion one with the other? I was reminded of how little I do that today. Ouch!
His viewpoint of how the energy companies took advantage of the people in Appalachia and the impact for generations is a question for everyone in business today. Who is one serving? Us or those less fortunate? And the comment about how mission is done strikes a chord. Should we not be doing mission differently by inviting ‘others’ to our homes and towns and churches, whether the people are in Appalachia or Africa or Mexico or South America or wherever? And the poetry is heartfelt and I especially liked ‘Acceptance’.
If you want to be jostled where you are and open to asking yourself some penetrating and uncomfortable questions, pick up the book, read it and contemplate some changes for your life, or just pick up the book and read of a man whose father had a big impact on his son in Appalachia.
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Take time.......
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05/31/2010
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Reviewer:
Karen Webb
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Come, read a bit, think a bit, and read more. My formative years were spent in the city with sidewalks, gravel play yards and noise. This book takes you to quiet times, laughing times, learning times. I wanted to sit with Tom's father and hear more stories. This is a book about trusting yourself and trusting others that you meet along the way. This is a book that needs to be shared with young parents. Parents who will learn that interactions between parents and children are the formative moments--not schedules for soccer, baseball, ballet, and all the other activities that we schedule in our children's lives. I especially enjoyed thinking about the "shadows" in life.
While at my grand daughter's graduation I thought about the small section in Tom's book about shadows. I was longing for a shadow to protect me from the hot sun in the stadium. I was able to use my neighbor's show for protection. Shadows enrich photos, landscapes, provide shelter and our own shadow plays along with us in the light. Take time to read, think and share this book with your community.
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