Traveling on Grace Street Jeff Blake 9781483670959 Books
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Traveling on Grace Street The most important lesson I have learned in the fifty years I have spent working toward the building of a better world is that the true work of social transformation starts within. It begins inside your own heart and mind. Thus, to truly revolutionize our society, we must first revolutionize ourselves. It's been a long journey, all the way from stepping off a cotton farm in Alabama to the epicenter of the struggle for civil rights in America. Some days when I go to my office in the early morning and look out over the great monuments beyond the Capitol, I think, How could this be? How could a poor boy from Alabama have lived such a life? I tell you, it has been the grace of God. Jeff Blake, a brother from Alabama, has written the story of grace in his own journey, and I am pleased to commend his Traveling on Grace Street to you. He too has been in the struggle. He too has kept his eye on the prize. John Lewis United States Congressman Atlanta, Georgia
Traveling on Grace Street Jeff Blake 9781483670959 Books
Review of Traveling on Grace Street, a memoir by Jeff Blake.Full disclosure requires that I say that I have known Jeff for over thirty years and that we are good friends. Still, honesty requires me to say that his memoir is better than I thought it would be. In fact it is beyond "better than I thought." It is profoundly illuminating, a combination of literary astuteness that is also highly poetic. Here we find the usual in a poet/author: evocative sensory description, metaphor, simile, and alliteration, but we also find great insight into the meaning of the poet's words. Often the meaning is as deep, and broad, and long, and high as the faith that anchors Jeff's heart and soul and life. His words flow from countless personal anecdotes, of friendships with great authors, both living and dead. His sense of "place" is thoroughly grounded, and reading his prose is something like paging through a really good travel blog. You can see and hear, and sometimes almost smell and touch the images he creates with words, images that take you to the places he has travelled, and connect you with the people with whom he has communed.
Jeff and I attended the same college: Christian, liberal arts, distinctive and life changing. Perhaps we had the same professors of literature, because I too resonate with appreciation many of the writers he mentions.
But, the highlight of Traveling on Grace Street is the theological depth of Jeff's understanding of grace. I met him by chance, or more likely by providence, in a Lexington Mall several years after our first meeting when he was in college administration. He was unshaven, gaunt, recently divorced, unemployed, and recovering from a cancer operation. I had no knowledge of the details then, but I called him soon after and our friendship began. We went to a midnight worship service on Christmas eve and broke bread the following day. Together we have learned to speak the truth to each other and to the world. Traveling on Grace Street is full of truth. It is written by a man who has something worthwhile to say. It is a reflection by a man living life well.
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Traveling on Grace Street Jeff Blake 9781483670959 Books Reviews
Lovely memoir that I enjoyed reading so very much! I can't wait to see what is yet to come from this author!
I truly enjoyed "Traveling on Grace Street" with the author!!! A true account of so many of our lives...the author writes so that each reader is able to identify with his story!!! A rare accomplishment!!!
My copy of Traveling on Grace Street came in the mail yesterday. I opened it coming out of the post office, and started in reading as soon as I got to the car. Twenty minutes or so later, I realized sheepishly that I was sitting with my car door open, one leg out, so touched by what I was reading that tears threatening to fall any minute. What could I do? I wiped my eyes, pulled my leg in the car, shut the door, buckled my seatbelt... and went on reading.
Only the fear that it would be over too soon eventually made me set it aside and drive home.
It's such a pleasure to be able get to know better someone I have friended and admired from his journal entries online, and to be introduced to the admirable people he has sought out.
Packed into the pages of this memoir are essays rooted in the spiritual quest for the meaning of grace. Jeff Blake writes with the heart of a great philosopher, always questioning and open to the answers, wherever they may be.
You'll learn from reading that your journey is never solitary; inspiration will come in many different forms and from many different people, past and present. So, I'll leave it to Albert Einstein to sum up the lesson of Traveling on Grace Street
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity."
Jeff Blake is a rare voice a liberal from the South; a fighter for Civil Rights, whose love for the South speaks in his poetry; a spiritual quester of boundless curiosity without a trace of dogmatism. Jeff Blake possesses a voice that is strong but never strident, honest and intimate without self-indulgence. He is a rare combination of qualities and it is heartening to find him as a companion on the journey of maturing and aging, as he stirs my own question, what is grace?
Review of Traveling on Grace Street, a memoir by Jeff Blake.
Full disclosure requires that I say that I have known Jeff for over thirty years and that we are good friends. Still, honesty requires me to say that his memoir is better than I thought it would be. In fact it is beyond "better than I thought." It is profoundly illuminating, a combination of literary astuteness that is also highly poetic. Here we find the usual in a poet/author evocative sensory description, metaphor, simile, and alliteration, but we also find great insight into the meaning of the poet's words. Often the meaning is as deep, and broad, and long, and high as the faith that anchors Jeff's heart and soul and life. His words flow from countless personal anecdotes, of friendships with great authors, both living and dead. His sense of "place" is thoroughly grounded, and reading his prose is something like paging through a really good travel blog. You can see and hear, and sometimes almost smell and touch the images he creates with words, images that take you to the places he has travelled, and connect you with the people with whom he has communed.
Jeff and I attended the same college Christian, liberal arts, distinctive and life changing. Perhaps we had the same professors of literature, because I too resonate with appreciation many of the writers he mentions.
But, the highlight of Traveling on Grace Street is the theological depth of Jeff's understanding of grace. I met him by chance, or more likely by providence, in a Lexington Mall several years after our first meeting when he was in college administration. He was unshaven, gaunt, recently divorced, unemployed, and recovering from a cancer operation. I had no knowledge of the details then, but I called him soon after and our friendship began. We went to a midnight worship service on Christmas eve and broke bread the following day. Together we have learned to speak the truth to each other and to the world. Traveling on Grace Street is full of truth. It is written by a man who has something worthwhile to say. It is a reflection by a man living life well.
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