A Room of Marvels: A Story About Heaven That Heals the Heart Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

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Three deaths in three years. His mother. His best friend. And now, his two-year-old daughter.

In this moving story, a Christian author goes to a retreat center to grieve and face the hard questions about God that he is asking in the wake of these losses. If you have ever felt alone, betrayed, abandoned - if you have found yourself asking God why - this novel may be a source of hope. And if you have ever wondered what heaven is like, this book provides a beautiful vision. A Room of Marvels is a masterful, dreamlike tale that speaks to the eternal in the midst of our most painful earthly losses. This expanded edition of the beloved book has a new afterword from James Bryan Smith. Finding your room of marvels will give you reason to live. Again.

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4 hours and 51 minutes
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William Sarris
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Nov. 3 2020
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B08LXBPDJQ
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Listening Length	4 hours and 51 minutes
Author	James Bryan Smith, Dallas Willard - foreword
Narrator	William Sarris
Audible.ca Release Date	November 03 2020
Publisher	christianaudio.com
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B08LXBPDJQ
Best Sellers Rank	#153,418 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #19,404 in Genre Fiction (Audible Books & Originals) #24,064 in Christian Fiction (Books)

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peter nemeth

Excellent Book

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on September 1, 2022

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This is a wonderful book. every Christian should read it. Particularly enjoyable if you're a Rich Mullins fan.

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lorrie

Thought provoking

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on May 11, 2015

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I read this book a day after mother's day, so it was extremely healing. Thank you for the image. Awesome

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Peg Wyatt

Terrific

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on September 13, 2013

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In great condition and certainly as described before purchasing! Love the larger print and happy with the purchase.
Wasn't let down whatsoever!

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FaithfulReader.com

Smith's small novel is the work of a big mind

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on June 6, 2004

Several readers and reviewers have already compared James Bryan Smith's ROOM OF MARVELS to Dante's DIVINA COMMEDIA and C.S. Lewis's THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS, for, like those two great thinkers and writers, Smith has attempted to give a view of Heaven less significant for its literal truth and more so for its metaphorical richness. His protagonist Tim Hudson "has finally arrived at God's address," we're told --- in other words, he's in despair. His beloved and physically challenged toddler daughter has died in a "senseless medical accident" and his closest friend in Christ, a musician, has been killed in an auto accident. Tim has thus found his way to "God's address" in time-honored fashion, through human agony.
Tim is blessed enough and resourceful enough not to wind up staring at the bottom of an empty glass, or worse. Instead, he signs up for a week-long silent retreat at an Episcopal monastery in Massachusetts. When he checks in, he finds he has been assigned a spiritual director --- much to his chagrin. The lean Brother Taylor, sporting sweats and running shoes beneath his habit, rankles Tim, who thinks he can solve his problems by himself, as long as he has some time and space to think about them.
But Brother Taylor not only quickly finds Tim's weakest spots --- he finds a place in Tim's subconscious, too. For one night Tim goes to bed and has a dream different from any other, in which multiple figures (from his imagination, his education and his background) lead him to places of great beauty, meaning and spirituality. A shadowy lion evokes Lewis's Aslan, from The Chronicles of Narnia; Lewis himself (here known by his earthly moniker of "Jack") brings Tim to a new level ... and so on, and so forth. A long-lost relative appears, as does his dead mother --- all of which sounds very kitschy and schtick-y.
Yet it's not. Smith, who is Chaplain and Assistant Professor of Theology at Wichita's Friends University, has crafted a deceptively simple and psychologically clever read about the things --- thing, really --- that matter most to Christian faith. Those devoted to denominational dogma and humdrum should check their baggage at Tim's bedside since, like the pre-Protestant Dante Alighieri and the confirmed Anglican Clive Staples Lewis, Smith also cares more about the Christ-centered than the church-centered. Every object, character and sensation Tim encounters during his lucid dream revolves around love: love given, taken, rejected, fulfilled.
Smith's small novel is the work of a big mind. If the comparisons to Dante and Lewis are a bit overblown on the literary front, they may not be on the theological front. There are many sincere Christians who believe that "apologetics" is wrong-minded, either as a defense of a faith (its common definition) or as over-intellectualization of what should come to us from the Holy Spirit. But in the hands of a mature Christian, when apologetics shows one fine person's struggle from the depths of despair back to firm knowledge of God's abiding presence and love --- well, it's a marvelous thing indeed.
--- Reviewed by Bethanne Kelly Patrick

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Cheryl Taylor White

A Gift of Perspective: Surprising Sense of Peace

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on April 19, 2004

Tim is a Christian author. He has lost several important people in his life and is bound up with anger at God for taking them from him. In an attempt to have a breakthrough, or even just a break from the misery he is living in, he goes for a retreat at a monastery. The retreat is in silence except for a one hour counseling session once a day with a monk. One of the things that happen to him while at this retreat is that he falls asleep and has a dream about heaven. The things revealed to him in this dream completely change his perspective on death, dying and heaven.
This book is really quite amazing. Within such few pages is revealed a unique outlook on heaven. I shed tears and laughed while reading it, but mostly found a sense of peace regarding love ones that have gone to heaven before me that I had never found before. If you have loved C. S. Lewis, you will love this book. I highly recommend it!

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Andrea Price

Room of Marvels is a new classic and great comfort

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on February 9, 2004

The two most famous works that have given the world a peak into an enlightened mind's vision of heaven, Dante's Divine Comedy and C.S. Lewis's The Great Divorce, are now joined by a third - James Bryan Smith's Room of Marvels. More inspiring than Dante and more touching and personal than Lewis, Smith's writing draws readers into his heaven and makes them never want to leave. Room of Marvels is a perfect combination of scripture-based theology and a powerful, semi-autobiographical story to which every reader can relate. This book is enjoyable, enlightening, and an invaluable comfort and guide for anyone who is currently struggling through or has ever struggled through the grieving process. An inspired and life-changing book that everyone must experience.

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Matt Berthot

The only book I have ever read through in one sitting.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 26, 2004

Smith makes heaven look like a magical world that every person would dream of going to. The picture that he paints of heaven is so beautiful it makes you feel all warm inside. The way he describes the music of heaven is what any musician would hope heaven could be like. His true love for his family makes you want to call everyone you love and tell them you love them. I read the book and I cried and cried with joy and happiness. This book will change your life forever in a wonderful way. And remember to take off your mask and love!

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"atruthseeker"

Random Acts Of Kindness

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on March 22, 2004

I've read Dante and I've read Lewis; Smith is better. This is one of the most inspired works you will ever read. If you or someone you know is groping with the doubts and anger which so often accompany grief, then this novel will comfort like no other.
Buy it. Read it. Give it to all your friends. And remember that your random and seemingly insignificant acts of kindness may resonate throughout all eternity. For in the end, the only true treasures you will ever know are the people you love.

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Claire

A Gem of a book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 19, 2016

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Fantastic book! I highly recommend this book. It is a book which encourages the reader that heaven is real, as Christians of course we know heaven is real, however, our small minds cannot imagine it. This books go some way to fill the gap between what is true but too hard to imagine.

Brigid Reeve

The Book of Marvels gives much to ponder.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 13, 2020

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This book was recommended reading by the leader of my Advent course. I enjoyed it very much. It gave me much to think about.

Marcea

Heavenly Journey

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 24, 2017

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Good read, really enjoyed this book, eye opener

PamT

Inspirational

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 15, 2013

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Any christian who has lost someone they love will be comforted and encouraged by this book. It helped my to see this world from the perspective of the next.

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Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 8, 2015

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Enjoyable, thought-provoking, reassuring read

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