Our Lives As Torah: Finding God in Our Own StoriesISBN: 978-0-7879-4473-5
Hardcover
240 pages
February 2001, Jossey-Bass
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In this powerful book, Carol Ochs shows us how to develop a
personal theology by examining our life stories, learning to
recognize God at work in them, and bringing them into conversation
with Torah. Using timeless biblical texts as lenses to see the
present, she helps us understand who we are and who God is for us
by exploring the tightly interwoven basic elements of our
lives--our love, suffering, work, bodies, prayer, community, and
experiences of death.
Through the process of seeing our experiences in relation to Biblical stories, we begin to recognize our lives as part of the ongoing story of the Jewish people--as Torah. This insight allows us to see these experiences as meaningful, not accidental, and opens us to recognizing God's power in and through all that happens to us. Rather than a collection of random events, our lives are part of the Jewish people's ongoing adventure. Armed with our personally shaped theology, we can face this adventure of living in the vanguard of history with awareness and confidence.