Synopses & Reviews
There is a mysterious, indescribable, complex exchange that can happen in the space between you and your partner. You find each other. Your centers of gravity expand as your lives become more and more entwined. You create space for this other person to thrive while theyre doing the same for you. This creates a flow of energy in the space between you. This energy field is at the heart of marriage. It flows in the space between you, space that exists nowhere else in the universe. You can become more familiar with how this energy field works. You can develop language between you to identify whats happening in the space between you. You can sharpen your abilities to assess it. You can act in certain ways to increase the flow. You can identify whats blocking the flow, and then you can overcome those barriers. Years into your marriage, you can continue to intensify this energetic flow between you.
It is risky to give yourself to another. There are no guarantees, and there are lots of ways for it to fall apart and break your heart. But the upside is infinite.
—from The Zimzum of Love
New York Times bestselling author Rob Bell and his wife, Kristen Bell, explore a whole new way of understanding our most intimate and powerful relationship: marriage. The concepts behind The Zimzum of Love open ways for us to transform and deepen how we love.
Review
“The Bells wield their heartfelt words and honest voices to cheer on couples of all kinds. . . . This is a ‘feel good book, not because it skirts the issues, but precisely because it delves so deeply into them. . . . Married or not, read this book.” < i=""> Publishers Weekly <> (starred review)
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“The Bells marriage manual... aims to help couples recognize that what theyre creating together is something energetic, light-filled and unknowably deep.” Guideposts
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“The book, rather than giving you a five-point prescription for how to make your marriage work, instead manages to fill you with hope, possibility, and even excitement, for your own relationship.” < i=""> Faith Forward, Patheos <>
Synopsis
As he revolutionized traditional teaching on hell in the phenomenal
New York Times bestseller
Love Wins, Rob Bell now transforms how we understand and practice marriage in
The Zimzum of Love, co-written with his wife, Kristen.
Despite the divorce statistics, people are still committing to each other, instinctively believing and hoping that theirs is a sacred union that will last forever. Yet when these couples encounter problems, they often lack the resources that keep them connected to this greater mystery surrounding marriage.
Rob and Kristen Bell introduce a startling new way of looking at marriage, The Zimzum of Love. Zimzum is a Hebrew term where God, in order to have a relationship with the world, contracts, creating space for the creation to exist. In marriage, zimzum is the dynamic energy field between two partners, in which each person contracts to allow the other to flourish. Mastering this field, this give and take of energy, is the secret to what makes marriage flourish.
Rob and Kristen Bell are brutally honest about their own struggles, their ups and downs, as together they pass along what matters most for couples. In this wise book, they explore the secret of what makes a happy union—probing the mystery at the heart of the extraordinary emotional connection that binds two people. With his down-to-earth charm, a dose of whimsy, and memorable stories, Rob, writing with his wife Kristen, changes how we consider marriage, providing insight that can help all of us create satisfying and sacred unions of our own.
About the Author
Rob Bell is the bestselling author of
Love Wins, Velvet Elvis, Sex God, Jesus Wants to Save Christians, Drops Like Stars, and
What We Talk About When We Talk About God. An international teacher and speaker, he was profiled in
The New Yorker and
TIME magazine, which named him one of 2011s hundred most influential people.
Kristen Bell is trained as an occupational therapist, cofounded Mars Hill, an innovative church in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and runs the 2Day leadership events. She and Rob live with their three children in Southern California.