Description: Love has the power to transform usIn the words of Mother Teresa, "We have forgotten that we belong to each other." This lapse in memory has caused deep fractures and allowed fear, hatred, and division to infect our lives together. We've become disconnected from each other and from our very selves.In Love Big, leadership coach Rozella Hayde White introduces readers to the power of revolutionary relationships. Modeled after the image of God as a lover, these relationships can heal the brokenness of our lives by crossing over the dividing lines of race, gender, religion, orientation, ability, identity, and class to provide relief and inspiration.Revolutionary relationships will usher us into a reality marked by love, connection, and a belief in abundance.Revolutionary relationships lead us to love big--to love despite hardships and fear; to love in the face of despair; to love ourselves and others deeply and passionately; to love in ways that change us all.
Brief description: Rozella Haydée White is a life and leadership coach, creator, and consultant. She is the owner of RHW Consulting, which accompanies individuals, organizations, and communities as they figure out what is meaningful and then work to create and live into values that reflect their understanding of a meaningful life. As a writer, teacher, preacher, and public theologian, Rozella boldly engage issues of faith, justice, self awareness and love, mental illness, and the radical and transformative love of God as embodied in the person of Jesus. Rozella is a contributing author for Renew 52: 50+ Ideas to Revitalize Your Congregation by Leaders Under 50 and Anonymous: Naming the God of Esther and the Women Who Plant Churches and is coauthor of Free Indeed: Devotions for Lent 2017 and the LEAD Work Out Guide: Calling People of Faith into Meaningful, Wider Relationships. Along with publishing articles in Gather, she also writes for The Salt Collective and has also blogged for Living Lutheran, ShePreaches Magazine, Believe Out Loud, Biologos, Caf', The Mudroom, and Thirty Seconds or Less.
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"This book is balm for wounded hearts and water for thirsty souls. The word love gets tossed around so casually nowadays that it has lost much of its meaning. But Rozella Hayd'e White's bold, vulnerable storytelling stripped away my cynicism and woke me from my slumber. She offers a much - needed reminder of the expansive, holistic love of an incarnate God -- a God who creates, a God who liberates, a God who sustains." --Jeff Chu, journalist and author of Does Jesus Really Love Me?