Hinds' Feet on High Places an Allegory Dramatizing the Journey Each of Us Must Take Before We Can Live in " High Places, Living Books 1988 "

by Hannah Hurnard

Paperback, 1986

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Available

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Much-afraid is on her spiritual journey through difficult places with her two companions, Sorrow and Suffering.

Publication

Living Books (1986), Edition: 22 nd. printing, 317 pages

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½ (165 ratings; 4)

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LibraryThing member Heather19
The one and only religion book I can truly call enlightening (tho I admit I don't really like religion books in the first place), this book was given to me by my best friend when I had a mental breakdown, and it helped me more then I can say. Reading about Much Afraid's journey really made me feel
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things that I didn't know a religious book could make me feel, and understand things I didn't think I ever would.
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LibraryThing member FindingGrace
Hinds' Feet in High Places by Hannah Hurnard is an Awesome book!! I enjoyed reading this book more than almost any other that I've read!! I love the way that Hurnard described Much Afraid's adventures to the high places! I look forward to reading more of her books and acquired more even before
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finishing this one. I can't say enough to really express how much I enjoyed and grew in my spiritual walk because of Hinds' Feet in High Places.
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LibraryThing member roydknight
A very provocactive Christian allegory. It lends itself to seeing the Christian life as an almost mystical journey. The spiritual truthes it communicates are strongly biblical and real...
LibraryThing member ithilwyn
I was very young when I read this and absolutely loved the alegory.
LibraryThing member TullyFamily
This was a favorite when I was a teenager. Thought provoking.
LibraryThing member porian
Brings life to the genre of allegory.
LibraryThing member chrislev
A faith-journey of love with the Good Shepherd, somewhat based on the Song of Solomon.
LibraryThing member KunmingERC
The story of a young woman named Much Afraid, and her journey away from her Fearing family and into the High Places of the Shepherd, guided by her two companions Sorrow and Suffering. It is an allegory of a Christian devotional life from salvation through maturity. It aims to show how a Christian
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is transformed from unbeliever to immature believer to mature believer, who walks daily with God as easily on the High Places of Joy in the spirit as in the daily life of mundane and often humiliating tasks that may cause Christians to lose perspective.
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LibraryThing member WaterMillChurch
Hinds' Feet on High Places is an allegory dramatizing the journey each of us must take before we can live in "high places" The emotions & struggles of our fleshly nature are personified. The journey to overcome these is led by the shepherd king (Jesus) who gently instructs & guides us through what
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seems terrible, impossible difficulties. As we trust Him & continue to follow Him we begin to change until we finally offer ourselves & everything about ourselves to death with fearless surrender. Only then can we experience true loe with blissful abandonment by giving and giving and giving.
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LibraryThing member et.carole
A thoroughly thought-provoking book.
LibraryThing member claidheamdanns
My dad read this to me when we were kids, but I was encourage by a friend to read it, so I thought I’d go ahead and read it as an adult.

It was terribly hard to read through, because it’s such a whiny narrative throughout.
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