Come Too Far To Turn Around
by Floyd Thompkins - Applied Wisdom Institute
These pages are crafted to be read slowly and revisited often, serving as companions for moral courage, grief-tender worship, and renewed commitment to the “beloved community.” Whether you are a preacher, activist, caregiver, or simply someone trying to live awake in unfair times, this book will help you pray with your feet as well as your lips—anchoring your work for justice in a deeper well of grace, resilience, and daring hope.
What readers are saying
“This is a deeply moving and spiritually grounded collection that speaks directly to those doing the hard work of justice. It offers language for prayer, strength for the journey, and a reminder that faith and action are inseparable. ”
— Rae Ingram
“Thank you for this resource that had a true belly - gut response where you touched my weariness especially in these days and times when power over systems want to paint our reality with untruths, violence and fear when we know we are not to be a part of a system that destroys and divides us. I was hungry for these prayers, meditations, writings where i went deep into my center and felt hope to revive and thrive from that deep place. ”
— Jane Spahr -he first nationwide lesbian Presbyterian Evangelist educator
“Rev. Thompkins' urges the credo of faith-in-action as we borrow from the words of the wise womanist ancestor, the late Rev. Dr. Katie Geneva Cannon, to go and "do the work your soul must have.”
— Rev. Valerie Miles-Tribble, DMin, PhD Professor - Ministerial Leadership & Practical Theology Berkeley School of Theology - Graduate Theological Union (BST/GTU)
More books by Floyd Thompkins - Applied Wisdom Institute
Nobody Told Me That the Road Would Be Easy
Devotions for People Working for Justice and Peace
The intense work of organizing, speaking, seeking funding, and administrating the people and systems that are necessary to make an impact can easily obscure the original passion and mission behind these activities. Concurrent with this danger of a loss of focus is the presence of pains, disappointments, and inevitable betrayals that can diminish one's capacity to experience or express joy.
Nobody Told Me That The Road Would Be Easy
A Nobody Told Me that the Road Would Be Easy Companion Workbook
Nobody Told Me That the Road Would Be Easy Companion Workbook is a six-week guide for people committed to justice, peace, and faith. Through daily reflections, prayers, practical exercises, and group discussion prompts, Rev. Floyd Thompkins Jr. helps readers pursue meaningful change without losing their joy, rest, love, or spiritual grounding. Ideal for personal devotion, small groups, and justice-minded faith communities.
Come Too Far To Turn Around
Guided Exercises For Prayer, Reflection and Action
In a time of exhaustion, division, and deep moral urgency, this companion workbook offers guided exercises for those who long to stay spiritually grounded while doing the hard work of justice, mercy, and communal healing.
Paired with the meditations of Come Too Far to Turn Around, it moves readers through love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control - turning contemplation into prayer, and prayer into faithful action.