What Size Are God's Shoes: Kids, Chaos, and the Spiritual Life [Paperback]

Tim Schenck (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 2008

"It's hard to have a God complex when your kids expect you to play garbage truck every night. This is the game where I lie on the floor as the boys stuff trucks, action figures, and plastic dinosaurs into my shirt. When the garbage truck is full to the point of overflowing, I go to the town dump by standing up. This is repeated ad nauseum. On any given day, I might find myself absolving sins in the name of the Church one moment and serving the cause of waste management the next." Do you believe God can be found in both the miraculous and the mundane? Through 40 insightful and engaging essays, Tim Schenck helps us encounter God through the chaos of everyday life. The divine presence weaves its way into a family room fish tank, a child's probing questions, the town pool, and the drive-thru window of the local fast food chain.

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"Schenck writes with humility and humor about the realities of parenting and his own limitations." --Episcopal Life, September 2008

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"You will thoroughly enjoy his 40 breezy essays and the lessons that are so neatly folded into them."

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Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Morehouse Publishing (July 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0819223123
• ISBN-13: 978-0819223128
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.8 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,344,485 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Tale of Two "Fathers", August 14, 2008

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This review is from: What Size Are God's Shoes: Kids, Chaos, and the Spiritual Life (Paperback)

A collection of witty, self-depricating, insightful gems, Reverend Tim Schenck stitches together comic narratives on what it's like to raise a family as an Episcopal priest. Very entertaining!

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5.0 out of 5 stars A guide to introducing one's children to religion and fielding the questions that inevitably follow, October 9, 2008

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: What Size Are God's Shoes: Kids, Chaos, and the Spiritual Life (Paperback)

Kids are full of questions and curiosity about the world around them, even the supernatural. "What Size Are God's Shoes?: Kids, Chaos, and the Spiritual Life" is a guide to introducing one's children to religion and fielding the questions that inevitably follow along with it. Telling how to weave the spiritual into the mundane to religiously educate one's offspring, "What Size Are God's Shoes?" is a useful and enlightening book for Christian parents.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Spirituality With a Sense of Humor, September 22, 2008

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This review is from: What Size Are God's Shoes: Kids, Chaos, and the Spiritual Life (Paperback)

A wonderful collection of witty vignettes taken from the everday life of a clergy family trying to raise kids with a sense of God in the midst of today's chaotic lifestyles.