Resting in Grace

Resting in Grace is written for the exhausted seeker. It is for the person who has become tired, not of God, but of the machinery built around God: the striving, the fear, the spiritual self-improvement, the careful performance of being acceptable, the private suspicion that peace is always one more practice, one more insight, one more purification away.The book names the Great Lie and its two faces, Burden and Merit, and turns toward the mercy that was already here. It is rooted first in the Tanakh and the New Testament, with Yeshua at its living center. It also listens to Christian contemplative traditions and to resonances from Advaita and Sikh wisdom. Two doorways, the gaze of the sage and the song of the saint, open side by side, and these wells keep their own voices.The language stays close to the nerve: awareness, grace, surrender, return. The brief invitations to notice breath, body, thought or the Name are openings, not requirements. Seven chapters, an epilogue and a closing prayer are followed by notes on the texts and a short glossary with a pronunciation guide.This book is not a monument. It is a cup of water.Rest cannot be performed.