Sky Mesa Journal [Hardcover]

Jesus told us where he lives, and that he would prepare us a place there. Is our death the entry point? Must we struggle on, trying to be perfect? At a heavy pain-point in life, Judith was given a summer at an old, run-down ranch. And she wrote. Sky Mesa Journal is the account of a soul's unraveling and reweaving--and the simple metaphors of nature that moved her forward. The birds and beasts and ragged hills spoke up--in paradigm. They told her what she had never really known of that sacred understanding: God's Kingdom. It happens down deep or not at all. This mysterious inner landscape, she discovered, is the summation of our best intents and dreams and fairy tales, the answer to our hidden poverties, our inexplicable wanderings. The hills are alive! They have spoken! This is the gist of what happened on Sky Mesa Ranch. This journal is about life lived on a larger scale, for having seen the small signposts raised before her. The journal simply tells how it happened for one disheartened soul. It has been many years since that summer; for Judith, nothing has ever, ever been the same. During a sojourn at a ranch named Sky Mesa, Judith Deem Dupree sat daily to record not simply what she saw with her eyes, but felt with her soul. These observations, remarkably personal and therefore encouraginglyhuman, are the music she created, solo pieces played beforean audience who quickly discovers theharmonies in their ownpassions, 'not the cheap stuff. . .but something Spring-clean.' What a blessing she is. --James Calvin Schaap, Author; Emeritus Professor of English, Dordt College, Sioux Center, IA InSky Mesa Journal, Judith Deem Dupree invites us into her journey of discovering the abundant gifts of slowing down, attentiveness, curiosity, and compassion. With the heart of a mystic, Dupreegleans profound wisdom from the humblest of places andcalls forth a holy/ordinary way of gently and radically befriending ourselves, one another, and our world. --Brianna Van Dl%