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Flirting with Faith

My Spiritual Journey from Atheism to a Faith-Filled Life

By: Joan Ball

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Paperback | 11 May 2010

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As a thirty-seven-year-old, highly skeptical, deeply rational woman, Joan had it all: loving family, extravagant home, a high-profile career, even personal contentment. So Joan was more surprised than anyone when she was relieved in an instant from the luxury of spiritual doubt and compelled to realign her life around practices of faith--about which she was a novice. With an unexplainable desire to pursue whatever God had for her at whatever cost was called for, Joan left her high-salary profession, sold her home and all her furniture (with her husband’s support), and started life from a blank slate. Finally realizing that she had been flirting with faith since she was a young teen, Joan fell in love with the God who had been pursuing her.

Joan candidly shares the story of her radical life change as she moved from atheist, to agnostic in addiction recovery, to the unexpected moment when she was “struck” Christian. As Joan lets go of control and convention, her skepticism is gradually replaced with a realization that embracing her new faith with radical abandon led to a far more mysterious and countercultural lifestyle than she’d ever imagined.

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"I love authors with attitude-that's why Anne Lamott is high on my favorites list. Now even higher is the new voice of Joan Ball. Her splendor of rendering life in the spirit is unmatched. Open this book up anywhere, and it grabs you everywhere."

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Mind, Body, Spirit Thought and Practice

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Struck	p. 1
Flirting with Faith	p. 19
A Note to Skeptics	p. 29
My Way	p. 35
He Said, She Said	p. 47
By the Book	p. 53
Saint Anthony and the Key	p. 61
Wide Awake	p. 67
One of Them	p. 79
Unlikely Disciple	p. 87
Illusion of Control	p. 97
Saying Yes	p. 111
Surrender	p. 125
Skydiving in the Nude	p. 141
The Wave and the Undertow	p. 155
Dazed and Accused	p. 167
Holy Spirit Serendipity	p. 181
Mary and the Monks	p. 191
Commitment	p. 205
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Flirting with Faith

My Spiritual Journey from Atheism to a Faith-Filled Life

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