The Great Belonging and Taylor Swift: Chapter Five
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It’s time to pair Chapter Five of The Great Belonging with a song by Taylor Swift.
I chose "Epiphany" to represent this chapter from The Great Belonging, "The Weight Pressing Down on Us" because of the lyrics that express a desire to have relief, to have a bit of understanding about particular sort of suffering.
Here’s how Chapter Five begins:
My first therapist told me some of us feel loneliness more deeply than others and I am probably one of those people. When he spoke those words I knew I was made for therapy. I had been waiting my whole life to have someone explain myself to me. It was as if something lifted, like a helium-filled balloon escaping the fist of a young child.
The Great Belonging: How Loneliness Leads Us to Each Other is available here and wherever books are sold.
And you can learn more about this chapter, the book, and other things in this Behind the Scenes with The Great Belonging Chapter Five video.
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Charlotte Donlon helps her readers and clients notice how they belong to themselves, others, God, and the world. Charlotte is a writer, a spiritual director for writers, and the founder of Spiritual Direction for Writers™. Her essays have appeared in The Washington Post, The Curator, The Christian Century, Christianity Today, Catapult, The Millions, Mockingbird, and elsewhere. Her first book is The Great Belonging: How Loneliness Leads Us to Each Other. She’s currently writing her next book, Spiritual Direction for Writers, which will be published by Eerdmans in 2024.