
Midnight, Jesus & Me : Misfit Memoirs of a Full Gospel, Rock & Roll Late Night Suicide Crisis Psychotherapist.
Title:
Midnight, Jesus & Me : Misfit Memoirs of a Full Gospel, Rock & Roll Late Night Suicide Crisis Psychotherapist.
Author:
Blaine, J M.
ISBN:
9781770903906
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (319 pages)
Contents:
Front Cover -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Foreword -- Disclaimer -- Rhythm & the River of Words -- PART I - Fall Back -- Plan G: Life Is What Happens -- Lumberyards & Bars -- Fools & Roosters -- Everywhere the Music Takes You -- Dr. Strong -- No Rock and Roll -- Together for the Good -- Fall Back: Until the Stars Steady Again -- PART II - Bothered by Bright Lights -- Tiger Stripes & White Tires -- Not Yet Ready for the World -- Closer to God with Cowgirl Strippers at the Coffee House College Bar -- Gotta Run to Keep from Hidin' -- Orangutans Will Hug You for Skittles -- Help Hope Hello -- Brother Jumbo Thin Mint & the Jaundiced Chimp -- Daughter of the Clown College Dean -- Feel Something -- Pork Chop Almighty & the Chocolate Apocalypse -- Until the Shivers Cease -- Forever Eleven -- Platinum Visions & Chariots of Fire -- Ramble On, Old Blue -- Riot at the Dollar Movie: Jesus Calling -- You Lose a Few -- Brother John -- Mr. T, Nietzsche & the Rebel Angels -- Flickering -- Of Pomp & Circumstance: Karl Barth Does the Cabbage Patch -- PART III - Treasures of Darkness -- Secret Latch: Panic Attacks & Gentleman Jack -- Piston Hips & Fists -- Whitney Houston, We Have a Problem -- Abide -- The Kingdom Is Now -- Amen in All the Wrong Places -- Hot Pants -- Forever Church -- Probably Dustin Diamond -- Child-Sized Again -- Any Color You Like -- Come On, Crazy Diamond -- Secret -- Far Away & Fractured: Another Night on Psych -- Pinball or Die -- Southern Gothic Sphinx -- The Gap Band Backing David Allen Coe -- This Is the Mattress Trick -- Prayers for Mr. Kick-Ass -- Cowboy Fabulous & Stardust 54 -- Save the World -- Safer Shoes -- Treasures of Darkness -- PART IV: Strangers & Angels Unaware -- Catch Me -- Eclectic, at Best -- Like Crop Dusting or Wrestling Bears -- Jesus Laughs -- Don't Know -- Green Onions -- Signs & Wonders, Kind of Blue -- One of Us.
Save a Star -- Crazy, Messy People -- Better Than Zaxxon -- Black Belt Bible Monsters Meet the Tattooed Hairdresser from Hell -- Jesus, Half-off -- Pretty Dang Sweet -- Strangers & Aliens -- Christmas Crazy: Amazing Grace at the Dollar General Store -- Come to Tennessee -- PART V: Seven Doors -- When Judas Tied the Noose -- Witch Black & Baby Blue -- Northbound Down & Beulah Land Bound -- Ten Million Beautiful Years -- Piffle -- 440Hz: The Albatross & Whale -- Fade In -- 'Til I See Your Lights -- The Last Song -- Jesus Is Alive & Well at the All-Night Kroger Off Old Hickory Road -- Neil Peart Jr. in a Double-Wide Trailer Just Past the Paper Mill -- For Southern Girls Who Love Jesus & Skynyrd: Dinner with a Classic Rock Jukebox Programmer -- Beauty & Chaos: Jump in the Fire -- Defeated, Tennessee -- Through the Sallyport -- Sad Old Laundromats, Mother's Day Payphones & Dolly Parton Pinball -- Down by the River of Life -- The Valium of God: Merry Christmas from the Far Back Pew -- OUTRO - Over the Levee -- Midnight, Jesus & Me: Soundtrack (on Three LPs) -- End Notes & Epilogues -- Gratitude -- A portion of the proceeds from this bookgoes to support the following ministries -- Baptism -- To Hell with the Devil: Halloween Is Alive & Well at the All-Night Kroger off Old Hickory Road -- For Ever & Story -- Fever Dreams from the Other Life: Brother Ferris & the Cannons on the Monastery Wall -- About the Author -- Back Cover.
Abstract:
A true story of faith and hope from the late night suicide crisis guy Midnight, Jesus & Me is an at once heartbreaking, provocative, and inspirational collection of true-life tales from J.M. Blaine, that semi-agnostic, evangelical absurdist, existential Christian, licensed psychiatric guy. He invites readers to listen to the secret lives of saints and sinners falling, as he questions the meaning of it all and determines that there are no easy answers. Armed with a mental health degree, Blaine works his way through mega-church counseling centers, drug rehabs, and graveyard shifts on the psychiatric crisis response team, all the while trying to hold onto his own sanity and not lose what little religion he has left. Blaine offers a street-level vision of charity, with deep concern for and engagement with the young, the marginal, and the troubled. Through stories, parables, and personal insights, the author highlights the ties that bind us rather than those that divide, that we are all struggling to grasp peace, live in grace, and find our way back home.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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