Self Love(d)

by Karen Openshaw and Chris Edmondson

We live at a time when there’s an abundance of books, blogs and social media posts on the importance of ‘celebrating and loving self’. All this could seem totally contrary to Jesus’ call in the Bible to ‘deny self’. (Luke 9:23) But did Jesus in issuing that call intend us to think ‘self-denial’ is the same as ‘self-neglect’?

In this third publication on which they have collaborated, Karen Openshaw and Chris Edmondson, together with Martin Grindrod, Shaun Lambert and Bev Walker, challenge that inaccurate assumption. In order to do so, they share their own unique stories of learning to love God, neighbour AND self, and how a right understanding of self-love has been aided by the practice of mindfulness.

Their hope is, that wherever you are in your journey of life, you might find in these pages some gem that brings you fresh insights, enabling you to love God and others more, AND know your self love(d).