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03596aam a2200469 i 4500 001 80EF2966BB4F11EE9799A7D243ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240125010040 008 220803s2023 nyua b 000 0deng 010 $a 2022026247 020 $a 1546003444 020 $a 9781546003441 040 $a DLC $b eng $c DLC $e rda $d DLC $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-ca 050 00 $a BX2320.5.U6 $b M68 2023 082 00 $a 263/.042794 $2 23/eng/20221117 100 1 $a Motsenbocker, Tyson, $e author. 245 10 $a Where the waves turn back : $b a forty-day pilgrimage along the California coast / $c Tyson Motsenbocker. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Worthy Publishing, $c 2023. 300 $a xiv, 255 pages : $b illustration ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (page 255). 520 $a "After years on the road performing at sold-out venues alongside platinum-selling and Grammy-winning Christian artists, Tyson Motsenbocker returned home to the impending death of his 57-year-old hero and mother. He begged God to heal her, but she died anyway. When they buried her body, Tyson also buried the childhood version of his faith. Weeks before her death, however, Motsenbocker discovered the story of 18th-century Spanish monk St. Junipero Serra who dedicated his life to the idea that tragedy and suffering are portals to renewal. He discovered Serra's "El Camino Real," a 600-mile pilgrimage route down the California coast that had been largely forgotten for more than 200 years. In desperation, Motsenbocker sets out to retrace the Saint's steps along the freeways and underpasses, littered beaches and multi-million-dollar coastal estates. During the next 40 days, Motsenbocker sinks below the comfortable surface of society he has always known, enduring excruciating pain, dodging addicts and roaring traffic, stepping over rats, and befriending retired veterans. His pilgrimage up the Western shore of America connects him to a lost mystic who often seems to hover just above as he grieves the loss of his mother and the insolubility of the kind of God he once comfortably trusted. Where the Waves Turn Back is a literary journey for the wanderer, doubter, adventurer, skeptic, mystic and seeker in all of us. Worn-out and weary travelers of all ages will be invited, along with Motsenbocker, to renegotiate their place in a world that's irrevocably changed. Readers will be captivated by the depth of Motsenbocker's honesty and vulnerability, enchanted by his lyrical prose, and inspired by his hard-fought healing. But more than this, they will discover portals to their own spiritual wonderings-the kinds that require leaving behind the worlds we once loved and loving the worlds in which we live"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Motsenbocker, Tyson. 600 10 $a Serra, JuniÌpero, $c Saint, $d 1713-1784. 600 10 $a Serra, JuniÌpero, $c Saint, $d 1713-1784. 650 0 $a Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages $z California. 650 7 $a Religion & beliefs $2 thema 650 7 $a Christian life & practice $2 thema 650 7 $a Memoirs $2 thema 650 7 $a Coping with death & bereavement $2 thema 650 7 $a Travel writing $2 thema 650 7 $a California $2 thema 650 7 $a Worship, rites & ceremonies $2 thema 650 7 $a Christianity $2 thema 650 7 $a Religious holidays $2 thema 650 7 $a Religion. $2 ukslc 651 0 $a California $x Description and travel. 941 $a 1 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20240524010620.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=80EF2966BB4F11EE9799A7D243ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search