{"id":319,"date":"2009-01-10T20:44:42","date_gmt":"2009-01-11T00:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/10\/review-of-breakfast-epiphanies-by-david-anderson\/"},"modified":"2009-04-04T22:51:24","modified_gmt":"2009-04-05T02:51:24","slug":"review-of-breakfast-epiphanies-by-david-anderson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=319","title":{"rendered":"Review of Breakfast Epiphanies, by David Anderson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image351\" height=\"206\" alt=\"breakfast_epiphanies.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/breakfast_epiphanies.jpg\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Breakfast Epiphanies<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Finding Wonder in the Everyday<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by David Anderson<\/p>\n<p>Beacon Press, Boston, 2002.\u00a0 155 pages.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beacon.org\/\">http:\/\/www.beacon.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Finding God in the ordinary is a way of seeing the world.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a willingness to suspect God when no other fingerprints match.\u00a0 When we encounter the sublime, terrible, inexplicable, we can stop silent in our tracks and whisper the words of Jacob as he awoke from his ladder dream:\u00a0 &#8220;Surely the Lord was in this place and I did not know it.&#8221;\u00a0 Or we can shrug it off as a weird coincidence.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a little book of musings about everyday events and what they mean in the bigger picture.\u00a0 I actually read this book over breakfast, one short chapter per day.<\/p>\n<p>A nice opportunity to stop and think for a moment, instead of simply letting life rush past.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0807028193\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on the main site at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/breakfast_epiphanies.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/breakfast_epiphanies.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breakfast Epiphanies Finding Wonder in the Everyday by David Anderson Beacon Press, Boston, 2002.\u00a0 155 pages. http:\/\/www.beacon.org\/ Finding God in the ordinary is a way of seeing the world.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a willingness to suspect God when no other fingerprints match.\u00a0 When we encounter the sublime, terrible, inexplicable, we can stop silent in our tracks and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings","category-nonfiction-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}