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- Herausgeber: IVP Formatio
- Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022
In this visual interpretation of a classic work, Sherrill Knezel brings Parker J. Palmer's bestselling book Let Your Life Speak to life. With more than seventy heartfelt images to go along with excerpts from Palmer, Heart Speak pairs these images with brief personal reflections. Readers are invited to explore and embrace both their own limits and potential, as they listen to their inner voice, and courageously following its lead. "I'm very excited about the way Sherrill has used her gifts of art and insight to interpret and express some of the key ideas in Let Your Life Speak," Palmer writes in the preface. "Clearly, images speak to a wider range of people than words alone, and are helpful even to 'word people' like me. Think of traffic signs that feature an upturned palm that clearly says 'Stop!,' or a snake-like line that says, 'Caution, sharp turns ahead!' Images incarnate words, making them not only more accessible but more actionable as well. Images instantly deliver a message: 'Here's something you need to know to negotiate the road you're on.'" Whether the words of Let Your Life Speak are familiar signposts on the roads you have traveled or they are new to you, you will enjoy this opportunity for reflection and discernment in regard to your life, community, and calling.
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may you carry with you curiosity,openness, love, and courage for the journey—and when your heart speaks ever so softly,listen well and take good notes.
Over the past forty years, I’ve had the joy of seeing all ten of my books translated into languages I don’t read or speak. Whenever a publisher tells me a new translation is in the works, I respond with the same lame joke, whose sole virtue is that it’s on me: “That’s wonderful! But I still hope we can find someone to translate the book into English.”
Now that I’ve had the good fortune of working with Sherrill Knezel—who’s a gifted artist and a public school teacher, which makes her one of my culture heroes—I realize that I should have been asking for a visual translation all along! But this one was worth waiting for. I’m very excited about the way Sherrill has used her gifts of art and insight to interpret and express some of the key ideas in Let Your Life Speak.
Clearly, images speak to a wider range of people than words alone and are helpful even to “word people” like me. Think of traffic signs that feature an upturned palm that clearly says, “Stop!” or a snake-like line that says, “Caution, sharp turns ahead!” Images incarnate words, making them not only more accessible but more actionable as well. Images instantly deliver a message: “Here’s something you need to know to negotiate the road you’re on.”
The road traveled by Let Your Life Speak is now relatively long, as such things go. Now in its early twenties, the book has spoken to readers from several generations. I smiled when I learned that Sherrill found the book in her husband’s grandmother’s library. I receive a quiet flow of notes from middle-aged people telling me how glad they are that a parent or grandparent urged them to read the book. I also hear from recent high school or college grads, saying that the book came to them as a course assignment or as a graduation present.
It’s a special delight to hear “full circle” stories like one I read a month or two ago: “In 2002, I gave this book to my grandson when he got out of college. Now he’s 40, and has an 18-year-old son, my great grandson. My son gave the book to his son for high school graduation, and now we’re talking about it together.” Stories like that warm my heart, even though they make me feel very old!
With the publication of Sherrill Knezel’s graphic translation, which may well speak to an even younger set, I aim to live long enough to get a note like this from someone who turned twelve in 2022: “My sixth-grade teacher used this book in class, and I’m still thinking about some of the things we talked about back then.”
My gratitude goes to the hundreds of thousands of readers who have used the book to help them hear their own lives speak. They have encouraged me to keep listening to my life, a practice that never fails me if I have the patience to listen long enough.
My gratitude also goes to Sherrill Knezel who had the idea for this translation. It’s been a joy to work with her and to have my eyes opened to the many ways images can help us speak and listen. I have every reason to believe that you, the reader, will have the same experience.
This book is meant to journey alongside Parker J. Palmer’s book Let Your Life Speak—to uplift and amplify Parker’s work in a new way and provide a creative visual access point to the book that has been a steadfast companion to me through the years.
When I was a young parent and new teacher, my husband’s grandmother Janet gave me one of Parker’s earlier books The Courage to Teach. I devoured it. Janet and I had many conversations in her small kitchen over tea discussing the themes and threads in the book. Janet was insatiably curious and always had piles of books for us to talk about when I visited. When she passed, I inherited several of these treasured books—Let Your Life Speak being one of them. As I started reading, it took only a few pages, with pencil in hand, to strongly sense that I would read and reread Let Your Life Speak many times in the coming years.
I couldn’t have known how true that would be. As I started following Parker’s work and reading more of his books, I found myself returning to Let Your Life Speak whenever I was feeling unmoored and in need of grounding or needed to be reminded of the importance of stillness and inner work. I kept it close at hand as I started a daily drawing and meditation practice of illustrating an inspiring or spiritual quote in the predawn hours while savoring that first cup of cinnamon coffee.
Parker’s words found their way into my first collection of morning drawings. So when I learned of the Growing Edge Retreats he co-led with Carrie Newcomer, I knew I would apply as a fiftieth birthday present to myself—-and hope like heck I would get accepted! And I did!
Since drawing is how I listen, process, and make meaning, I sketch-noted the entire transformative and soul-filled weekend in March 2019. Somewhere among the powerful circle conversations, poetry readings, and collaborative songwriting, an idea took root: Parker and I are going to write a book together.
After returning home from the weekend retreat, the idea kept tugging at my heart, so I reached out to Parker to pitch my idea—I asked permission to create a visual interpretation of seventy-plus passages from Let Your Life Speak—the only effort on his part would be to say yes. To my delight, he did, and to my even bigger delight, we began meeting virtually as I worked on the images and got further into the process of publishing. Getting to know Parker—his generosity, wisdom, and humor—has been a true gift of writing this book.
I find immense joy in gathering inspiring words and laying them down interpreted as simple and graceful lines, shapes, and spaces that help me make sense of the world. I also am completely in love with beautiful questions that open worlds within and help us speak our best selves into being. I like to think of this book as a conversation with Parker and myself spoken through images, personal reflections, and questions that invite you to sit with them, reflect, and hopefully visit again and again. The words placed within the images on the left-hand pages are Parker’s. The words on the right-hand pages are my musings and questions in response.
I invite you to take this book in your pocket and read it in the way that nurtures you. Open to a random page. Or read it cover to cover. Write and draw in the margins. Bend and bookmark the pages. Talk with God (or Creator, Universe, or whatever name you use to refer to a higher power) about what you are noticing. Share it with a friend. Discuss it with a small group. Pull it out when you need a reminder of our true and precious work in this world—which I believe is to be in relationship with each other—in all its messy and beautiful and sacred forms.
It is my deepest hope that the drawings will expand your connection with Parker’s words and that the book will be a gentle light in your day, a salve for your soul, reminding you that you are not alone, and that community is abundance. Perhaps it will encourage and empower you to listen to what your heart has been speaking all along.
A human stick-figure is looking longingly at, and listening intently to, an oval stick-figure sign that says "life." The two figures are standing on a road as they join hands. The human stick-figure has a heart on its chest, and floating above the "life" sign is a speech bubble with a heart inside. Note: Every stick figure has a heart on its chest.
I have gotten myself into trouble trying to be everything for everybody, and in the end, helping no one. I assigned self-worth only when I was doing or helping or being what someone else or society told me I should be. When I listen quietly though, and allow for what wants to emerge, that is when I can gently hold life’s hand. Charging in with expectations often blinds me to the gentle possibilities that are in a tender beginning stage. Open . . . breathe . . . stay for a moment and receive.
What wants to emerge for you? How might you make time to nurture that new and tender growth?
Standing inside a circle marked with the word "inauthentic" is a human stick-figure with a bandage on its body. A stick-figure oval sign that says "true self" is pointing to itself as it stands on a separate circle marked with the word "honor." There is a heart image on the human stick-figure with a dotted line connecting it to the true self.
I have learned that when I deny
