The most beautiful thing I've seen : opening your eyes to wonder

The most beautiful thing I've seen Opening your eyes to wonder

Lisa Gungor

Book - 2018

"Lisa Gungor thought she knew her own story: small-town girl meets boy in college and they blissfully walk down the aisle into happily ever after. Their Christian faith was their lens and foundation for everything--their marriage, their music, their dreams for the future. But as their dreams began to come true, she began to wonder if her religion was really representative of the 'good news' she had been taught. She never expected the questions to lead as far as they did when her husband told her he no longer believed in God. The death of a friend, the unraveling of relationships and career, the loss of a worldview, and the birth of a baby girl with two heart defects all led Lisa to a tumultuous place; one of depression and de...spair. And it was there that her perspective on everything changed. The Most Beautiful Thing I've Seen tells the story of what can happen when you dare to let go of what you think to be true; to shift the kaleidoscope and see new colors and dimension by way of broken pieces. Lisa's eloquent, soul-stirring memoir brings you to a music stage before thousands of fans and a front porch where two people whisper words that scare them to the core. It is the story of how doubt can spark the beginning of deeper faith; how a baby born with a broken heart can bring love and healing to the hearts of many, and ultimately, how the hardest experience in life often ends up saving us"--

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Subjects
Gungor, Lisa.
Gungor, Lisa > Family.
Contemporary Christian musicians > United States > Biography.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Genres
Autobiographies
Biographies
Published
Grand Rapids, Michigan : Zondervan [2018]
Language
English
Main Author
Lisa Gungor (author)
Physical Description
214 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
ISBN
9780310350439
  • Prologue
  • Perspective
  • Part 1. Dot
  • Where the Light Comes In: Part 1
  • Trampoline
  • Holy Rollers
  • I Met a Boy
  • Part 2. Line
  • Where the Light Comes In: Part 2
  • Certainty and American Confessions
  • Bread, Wine, and Mary Jane
  • Neighbors and Lady Tubes
  • A Teacher
  • Bottom of the Cup
  • Lousy Atheist
  • Silence
  • Mother
  • Part 3. Circle
  • Where the Light Comes In: Part 3
  • Paper Hearts and Ballerinas
  • What the Night Brings
  • Measurements
  • Going Home
  • Singing in the Dark
  • Solidarity
  • Weakness
  • The Sight We Learn
  • The Most Beautiful Thing I've Seen
  • Moment One
  • Epilogue
  • Afterword
  • Acknowledgments
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Gungor, cocreator (with her husband) of the Grammy-nominated music collective Gungor, directs this moving, extremely personal memoir to her mother. "We see things differently because our histories or circumstances give us differing view points," she writes, before detailing her young marriage at age 19 and how her divorced parents were both wary and skeptical of her decision to marry. Over the course of three years, the Gungors' music collective found a global audience and Gungor found herself estranged from her mother after a falling out over her faith. Years later, when the Gungors' second daughter was born with Down syndrome, Gungor began to reflect on her past and deeply consider the importance of perspective in a way she hadn't since she quarreled with her mother about getting married: "her first few moments... she was purely perfect. Then in minutes she was given a definition. We were given a lens for viewing her." Gungor's story fluctuates between an address to her mother and an open exploration of her past, and she also writes about her struggle to find peace after her husband tells her he is an atheist. Music fans will be enthralled by Gungor's generous spirit as she confronts her life's most trying moments. (June) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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