The Grace of Enough: Pursuing Less and Living More in a Throwaway Culture

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Do you ever feel caught in an endless cycle of working harder and longer to get more while enjoying life less? The Stewart family did―and they decided to make a radical change. Popular Catholic blogger and podcaster Haley Stewart explains how a year-long internship on a sustainable farm changed her family’s life for the better, allowing them to live gospel values more intentionally.

Winner of a 2020 Catholic Press Association book award (first place, backlist beauty).

When Haley Stewart married her bee-keeping sweetheart, Daniel, they dreamed of a life centered on home and family. But as the children arrived and Daniel was forced to work longer hours at a job he liked less and less, they dared to break free from the unending cycle of getting more yet feeling unfufilled. They sold their Florida home and retreated to Texas to live on a farm with a compost toilet and 650 square feet of space for a family of five. Surprisingly, they found that they had never been happier.

In The Grace of Enough, Stewart shares essential elements of intentional Christian living that her family discovered during that extraordinary year on the farm and that they continue to practice today. You, too, will be inspired to:

live simplyoffer hospitalityrevive food culture and the family tablereconnect with the landnurture communityprioritize beautydevelop a sense of wonderbe intentional about technologyseek authentic intimacycenter life around home, family, and relationships

Drawing from Pope Francis’s encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si’, Stewart identifies elements of Catholic social teaching that will enhance your life and create a ripple effect of grace to help you overcome the effects of today’s “throwaway” culture and experience a deeper satisfaction and stronger faith.

From the Publisher

Our culture presents the world as a cosmic supermarket. All of God’s creation—even our relationships to other people—is there for us to consume, expendable when it becomes difficult or requires sacrifice. We’re told that happiness is within our grasp if we can only buy enough, acquire enough, achieve enough. Yet in our pursuit of more we find only a larger and larger void needing to be filled. No matter how much we have, it’s never enough.

This disconnection we experience in modern life has brought about a thirst for something transcendent. In The Grace of Enough, Catholic blogger and podcaster Haley Stewart will inspire you to live simply, develop a sense of wonder, and center your life around home, family, and relationships. In these pages is a path separate from the modern consumerist lifestyle, and one that will deliver you to what you crave: enough.

In this book, Stewart shares the story of her family’s crazy experiment to leave suburban America to pursue a family-focused life on a sustainable agriculture farm. Instead of the expedient, they preferred the meaningful. Instead of the efficient, they chose the beautiful.

The Grace of Enough is simply an invitation to embrace this life of simple joy—to be fully alive to the truth of the Gospel, and to flourish in it.

Redirect Your Heart

“Each time we trade affluence for a family-centered life, or choose simplicity over excess, or practice holy hospitality, we align ourselves with the teachings of Christ and the Church,” Stewart says. “We redirect our hearts toward embracing the Christian life in ways that better orient our hearts toward God.”

In each chapter, Stewart encourages readers to reflect on throwaway culture in their own lives, with questions such as:

How might your possessions be overwhelming you, distracting you, and eating up your valuable time? What simple prayers, devotions, or other family traditions can you cultivate to nurture your family or community life? What is one thing you can do to break the hold of throwaway culture in your part of the world?

“Spiritually inspiring.”‘

“We loved this fantastic story of faith, family, and discovering the joy of living on less. This book is a spiritually inspiring reminder to pause and reflect on how we can step away from the throwaway culture.”

—Michele Faehnle and Emily Jaminet

Authors of Divine Mercy for Moms

“A lovely book.”

“Our culture has proposed that the path to freedom entails working harder in order to have more. Our faith proposes a radically different idea. In this lovely book, Haley Stewart explores the idea of living simply—and it’s an idea that has the power to change the world.”

—Tommy Tighe

Editor of The Catholic Hipster Handbook

“Wonderfully wise.”

“Prophets wake us to our true state, call upon us to be better than we are, and demand that we think hard about the life we are living. And thus we shy away from prophets. Haley Stewart, however, won’t let us escape so easily. Hers is a genuinely prophetic voice, but one so full of fun and the sheer joy of living that she thoroughly charmed and convinced me. A wonderfully wise book for our confusing and misguided era.”

—Paula Huston

Author of One Ordinary Sunday

“An antidote to throwaway culture.”

“This book is an antidote to throwaway culture, a blueprint to living a fulfilling life. What St. Benedict did for the early monastics, Haley has done for modern suburbanites and families: provide a compelling rule, a practical life plan, one centered on community, simplicity, and charity.”

—Brandon Vogt

Content director of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries and author of Why I Am Catholic

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ave Maria Press
Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 7, 2018
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1594718172
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1594718175
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.4 x 0.6 x 8.4 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #233,297 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #1,359 in Christian Family & Relationships #3,007 in Catholicism (Books)
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