Below is an excerpt from my book, Coffeehouse Contemplative: Spiritual Direction for the Everyday. Brother Lawrence was a Carmelite monk who lived in Paris in the seventeenth century. He is not really known for any grand speeches, writings, or miracles, but instead something much more subtle: he wrote a brief classic work called The Practice ofContinue reading “Coffeehouse Contemplative Book Excerpt: Propane Altars”
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My Ebooks Are 50% Off This Week
Did you know that “Read an Ebook Week” is a thing? I didn’t, until the other week when Smashwords sent me an email. Apparently, that’s this week. I’m doing my part to celebrate by making my ebooks 50% off! No Perfect Time: Brief Essays on Life and Faith is a collection of short reflections aboutContinue reading “My Ebooks Are 50% Off This Week”
Make Everybody Be Twins
For people who consider themselves creatives, it’s quite rare that good ideas fall out of the heavens full cloth, uninterrupted by lesser iterations in between. In reality, one may come up with a snippet, a wisp, a hint of something that may one day lead to something great. But that will include an entire processContinue reading “Make Everybody Be Twins”
Jeffrey A. Nelson 