Becoming Who I Am

BETH-SARAH WRIGHT, PhD, is Director of Enrollment Management at Holy Innocents' Episcopal School in Atlanta, Georgia and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, Emory University School of Medicine. Wright is the author of 4 books: two on the intersection of mental health and spirituality, a third on Christian Identity and the Nicene Creed and a spiritual novel rooted in 3 generations of women in a transnational context spanning the Caribbean, UK and the USA. She resides in Atlanta, GA with her husband and five children.

• Introduction: Symbolon PART 1 Begotten i. Our Beginning ii. On This Day iii. Dis a Who Wi Be! (Dis a who Mi be!) iv. Sounds of Home v. What Do You Do with God’s Dream for You? vi. A Dream Prayer PART 2 Light from Light i. I Am the Light ii. Dare to Be Different iii. Send Me PART 3 And Was Made Woman i. Part I (Our Belief) ii. Part II (Our Oblation) iii. Part III (Our Beauty) iv. Part IV (Our Prayer) v. Balancing vi. God’s Reflection vii. What’s in a Name? PART 4 Suffering Death i. Good Friday Narratives ii. Holy Saturday Moments iii. Dream Conservation iv. The Black Morel PART 5 Rising Again i. A Spiritual Crescendo ii. A New Song PART 6 In Accordance with the Stories i. Worship ii. Our Stories Matter iii. A Prayer for Our Stories I iv. Our Divine Stories v. A Prayer for Our Stories II vi. God’s Story PART 7 Giver of Life i. Directions ii. Miracles iii. God’s Ambulance iv. Born Anew v. A Pilgrimage to Joy PART 8 Life of the World to Come i. What a View ii. Prayer of Self-Dedication (Book of Not So Common Prayer) iii. Astonish Me! I iv. Astonish Me! II v. Astonish Me! III vi. A Prayer of Affirmation vii. New Morning, New Mercies (Ostinato Refrain)

"This slim volume is full of infectious rhythms and memorable lines, but you will have to read it yourself to discover which ones are calling your name. Beth-Sarah Wright has done what all good writers do: she has found the universal story in her story and made an offering of it for the rest of us."—Barbara Brown Taylor, author of Learning to Walk in the Dark "With poetry, story, song, and lament, Beth-Sarah Wright invites her reader to choose life, God-given and God-directed life. Her book surprises, provokes, and inspires, challenging us to hear and to see in the ways of the Gospel." —Mary C. Earle, spiritual director, retreat leader, Episcopal priest, author of Marvelously Made: Gratefulness and the Body "Beth-Sarah Wright reminds us that the Spirit who guides us on this journey of faith is more poet than cartographer, more storyteller than director. Each step on our way to wholeness is holy and hopeful."—Milton Brasher-Cunningham, author of Keeping the Feast and This Must Be the Place