Send Out Your Light

In the middle of Psalm 43, God offers us a dynamic invitation: Send out your light.

Prolific singer-songwriter Sandra McCracken believes we each have the opportunity to hear and answer this invitation. This book is written in three parts: Part one is the becoming, the creation, how God makes us and gives us an identity. Part two is the disorientation of loss, displacement, and the dark night of the soul. Part three is reorientation, how God brings us through the darkness and illuminates our path with Scripture, sending us out to take his light to others.

This has been the shape of Sandra McCracken’s life. Through it all, songs and Scripture have been there to light the way, helping her respond to God’s call. How will you respond to God’s call to send out his light?

1. Opening Credits
2. Introduction: A Letter of Light
3. Part 1
4. Chapter 1: The Scribbled Songs of Childhood (I Am From)
5. Chapter 2: Where Are You Now?
6. Chapter 3: Wake Me Up, Send Me Out
7. Chapter 4: The Songs That Shape Us
8. Chapter 5: My Sister's Piano
9. Chapter 6: Hymns and Hers
10. Chapter 7: Solitude and Self-Portraits
11. Chapter 8: Light Through Winter Branches
12. Chapter 9: Chasing Beauty
13. Part 2
14. Chapter 10: Light Through the Shoebox
15. Chapter 11: New Beginnings at Cracker Barrel
16. Chapter 12: The Practice of Lament
17. Chapter 13: Soul Shape and Sad Songs
18. Chapter 14: The Long Way Home
19. Chapter 15: Liturgy and Invitation
20. Chapter 16: A Change in Landscapes and the Unchanging Covenant
21. Chapter 17: Crossing Thresholds and Finding the Way Forward
22. Part 3
23. Chapter 18: Transfigure Me
24. Chapter 19: Detours
25. Chapter 20: Skies and Infants in Wordless Praise
26. Chapter 21: Praise in Pain
27. Chapter 22: Trinity and Collaboration
28. Chapter 23: Chatterbox Falls and the Power of the Spirit
29. Chapter 24: Justice and God's Abundance
30. Chapter 25: Singing Somebody Else's Song
31. Chapter 26: The Whole of Love Returned
32. Closing Credits