Love has the power to transform usIn the words of Mother Teresa, "We have forgotten that we belong to each other." This lapse in memory has caused deep fractures and allowed fear, hatred, and division to infect our lives together. We've become disconnected from each other and from our very selves.In Love Big, leadership coach Rozella Hayd'e White introduces readers to the power of revolutionary relationships. Modeled after the image of God as a lover, these relationships can heal the brokenness of our lives by crossing over the dividing lines of race, gender, religion, orientation, ability, identity, and class to provide relief and inspiration.Revolutionary relationships will usher us into a reality marked by love, connection, and a belief in abundance.Revolutionary relationships lead us to love big--to love despite hardships and fear; to love in the face of despair; to love ourselves and others deeply and passionately; to love in ways that change us all.
Rozella Hayd'e White is a life and leadership coach, creator, and consultant. She is the owner of RHW Consulting, which accompanies individuals, organizations, and communities as they figure out what is meaningful and then work to create and live into values that reflect their understanding of a meaningful life. As a writer, teacher, preacher, and public theologian, Rozella boldly engage issues of faith, justice, self awareness and love, mental illness, and the radical and transformative love of God as embodied in the person of Jesus. Rozella is a contributing author for Renew 52: 50+ Ideas to Revitalize Your Congregation by Leaders Under 50 and Anonymous: Naming the God of Esther and the Women Who Plant Churches and is coauthor of Free Indeed: Devotions for Lent 2017 and the LEAD Work Out Guide: Calling People of Faith into Meaningful, Wider Relationships. Along with publishing articles in Gather, she also writes for The Salt Collective and has also blogged for Living Lutheran, ShePreaches Magazine, Believe Out Loud, Biologos, Caf', The Mudroom, and Thirty Seconds or Less.
Introduction 1. Faith in God as a Lover 2. It All Begins with Self Love 3. Rouse Your Mind 4. Repair Your Heart 5. Reform Your Body 6. Restore Your Soul 7. Revolutionary Relationships Defined 8. Love Big, Heal the World
"This book is balm for wounded hearts and water for thirsty souls. The word love gets tossed around so casually nowadays that it has lost much of its meaning. But Rozella Hayd'e White's bold, vulnerable storytelling stripped away my cynicism and woke me from my slumber. She offers a much - needed reminder of the expansive, holistic love of an incarnate God -- a God who creates, a God who liberates, a God who sustains." --Jeff Chu, journalist and author of Does Jesus Really Love Me? "I'm not sure I've ever read a book that so seamlessly offers a warm embrace on one page and a helpful kick in the pants on the next! Love Big is an invitation to healing, and Rozella Hayd'e White is the mentor you've always wanted -- kind, wise, insightful, and incisive." --Rachel Held Evans, best-selling author of Searching for Sunday and Inspired "Rozella Hayd'e White gives us open access to the wisdom of her heart. The rawness, the realness, the vulnerability -- she offers it all up in love. And when we receive it, we find love starting to take root in us in new, revolutionary ways. Hers is a fierce love. A generative love. A liberative love. A love that sings through the pages of this book." --Matthew David Morris, producer, songwriter, and minister "Reflecting on her own story, Rozella calls us to awaken our minds, repair our hearts, reform our bodies, and restore our souls so that we can engage in revolutionary relationships -- creative, liberating, and sustaining relationships -- that heal the world." --Michael Rinehart, bishop of the Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America "In Love Big, Hayd'e White has given us a love we have to dig deep to understand and then choose for ourselves and others. Her words are exactly what we need to get us loving in a robust and powerful way. This book is vulnerable and smart, easy to read and challenging." --Micky ScottBey Jones, the Justice Doula, contemplative activist, author, and speaker
