Being a human being is problematic. If "success is not a name for God" as Martin Buber once asserted, then how do we measure a life? Is there a way to experience our failure, frustration and loss as openings to a new way of being human?
Mark Yaconelli is a spiritual director, retreat leader and director of the Youth Ministry and Spirituality Project.
He is the author of Contemplative Youth Ministry: Practicing the Presence of Jesus and Growing Souls � Experiments in Contemplative Youth Ministry. He is currently finishing a book for declining congregations entitled Letter to a Dying Church. Mark is married with three children.
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