James
Autry, writer and poet, business executive, and son and grandson of Mississippi
Baptist ministers, thinks that the true message of the old spiritual is not
just that God has an eye on the sparrow. It's that God is demonstrating that
if these details are worth God's attention, they are certainly worth ours.
It may be that we will more readily find God in the details of this world,
and of our own lives, than anywhere else.
Looking
Around for God, Autry's tenth book, is in many ways his most personal,
as he considers his unique life of faith and belief in a God often clouded
by church convention. In assembling these personal essays, stories and poems,
Autry shares how God has been revealed in many different circumstances of
his life, and he offers a few ideas for how the Christian church might better
serve in making God's love and presence manifest in the world.
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