Facing East, Praying West - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Facing East, Praying West write by Kent Ira Groff. This book was released on 2010. Facing East, Praying West available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Facing East, Praying West is a collection of poetic reflections based on Ignatius's Spiritual Exercises. The prayer poems in this book are arranged according to the four-week structure of the Exercises. They convey the reader through the four movements of Christ's story: creation, living, dying, and rising to new life. The poems in this volume are not merely literary pieces, but have a practical spiritual purpose. They draw on the reader's imaginative and intellectual response to God's grace. They sustain and encourage the reader through the consolations and desolations of the soul's journey. The flow of words and metaphors creates a holistic way of praying, one that develops body, mind, and spirit. Like the Psalms, these prayer poems will enhance the reader's ability to see transcendent beauty in the darkness of life. This book not only offers a new way of experiencing the essence of the Exercises, but it will also inspire readers to compose their own prayer poems and express the deepest longings of their souls. +
The Way Into Jewish Prayer
The Way Into Jewish Prayer - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Way Into Jewish Prayer write by Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, PhD. This book was released on 2011-12-01. The Way Into Jewish Prayer available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An accessible introduction to the reasons for and the ways of Jewish prayer. The Way Into Jewish Prayer helps us to explore the reasons for and the ways of Jewish prayer. It opens the door to 3,000 years of Jewish prayer, making available all you need to feel at home in the Jewish way of communicating with God.
Men Pray
Men Pray - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Men Pray write by SkyLight Paths Publishing. This book was released on 2013. Men Pray available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A celebration of men's voices in prayer--through the ages from many faiths, cultures and traditions. "If men like us don't pray, where will emerging generations get a window into the soul of a good man, an image of the kind of man they can aspire to be--or be with--when they grow up? If men don't pray, who will model for them the practices of soul care--of gratitude, confession, compassion, humility, petition, repentance, grief, faith, hope and love? If men don't pray, what will men become, and what will become of our world and our future?" --from the Introduction by Brian D. McLaren This collection celebrates the profound variety of ways men around the world have called out to the Divine--with words of joy, praise, gratitude, wonder, petition and even anger--from the ancient world up to our own day. The prayers come from a broad spectrum of spiritual traditions--both East and West--including Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and more. Together they provide an eloquent expression of men's inner lives, and of the practical, mysterious, painful and joyous endeavor that prayer is. Men Pray will challenge your preconceived ideas about prayer. It will inspire you to explore new ways of prayerful expression and new possibilities for your own spiritual journey. This is a book to treasure and to share. Includes prayers from: Marcus Aurelius * Daniel Berrigan * Rebbe Nachman of Breslov * Walter Brueggemann * Bernard of Clairvaux * St. Francis of Assisi * Robert Frost * George Herbert * Gerard Manley Hopkins * St. Ignatius Loyola * Fr. Thomas Keating * Thomas à Kempis * Chief Yellow Lark * Brother Lawrence * C. S. Lewis * Ted Loder * Nelson Mandela * General Douglas MacArthur * Thomas Merton * D. L. Moody * John Henry Newman * John Philip Newell * John O'Donohue * Rumi * Rabindranath * Tagore * Walt Whitman * many others
Honest to God Prayer
Honest to God Prayer - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Honest to God Prayer write by Kent Ira Groff. This book was released on 2012-10-25. Honest to God Prayer available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Maybe you're praying and you don’t even know it. In this unique and encouraging guide to prayer, Kent Ira Groff, a longtime retreat leader and inspiring writer-poet, explores how to engage in spirituality that blesses your soul—and the world. Whether you’re advanced or just starting on your spiritual path, this practical prayer path breaker will lure you in with its novel combination of touching, real-life stories, pithy thoughts and inspiring prayer practices. For those turned off by shopworn religious language, it offers innovative ways to pray in four metaphorical movements that parallel both Native American traditions and Ignatian spirituality: East—Morning / Prayer as Awareness Waking up to reality—opening South—Noon / Prayer as Empowerment Embracing your dreams and possibilities—expanding West—Afternoon / Prayer as Relinquishment Letting go of attachments—emptying North—Night / Prayer as Paradox Uniting the opposites of life—integrating Prayer practices for each of the four "movements" provide for personal and group enrichment at home and work, in formal programs and informal friendships. They interweave the author’s own experience to say: “This is honest to God spirituality and I’m seeing myself.”
Clergy Table Talk
Clergy Table Talk - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Clergy Table Talk write by Kent Ira Groff. This book was released on 2012-04-12. Clergy Table Talk available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What goes on in the back of clergy folks' heads that we wish we could talk about? And what do we talk about with no holds barred? In each chapter of this book, Groff offers a spiritual spin on an issue in ministry normally viewed as a distraction. He shows real life ways that a barrier can become a bridge to deepening spiritual life and vocation. A paragraph ends with a question, inviting the reader to pause . . . and ponder. Each chapter ends with a spiritual practice and questions for reflection. Here is ideal grist for intergenerational study groups for ministers, members, and seekers.
