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Honest to God Prayer

Spirituality as Awareness, Empowerment, Relinquishments and Paradox

Honest to God Prayer

Spirituality as Awareness, Empowerment, Relinquishments and Paradox

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Hardback

£19.99

Publisher: Jewish Lights Publishing
ISBN: 9781683361138
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 15/11/2012
Width: 15.2 cm
Height: 22.9 cm
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."
Index of Prayer Practices Orientation Prologue Integrating Native American and Ignatian Spiritual Streams Theme I Prayer as Awareness: Opening Chapter One. Waking Up to Reality: The Grounding for Awareness Chapter Two. Living Awake to What Is The Process of Awareness Practices for Cultivating Awareness Theme II Prayer as Empowerment: Expanding Chapter Three. Claiming Possibilities: The Grounding for Empowerment Chapter Four. Embracing Dreams: The Process of Empowerment Practices for Cultivating Empowerment Theme III Prayer as Relinquishment: Emptying Chapter Five. Negative Capability: The Grounding for Relinquishment Chapter Six. Shedding Attachments: The Process of Relinquishment Practices for Cultivating Relinquishment Theme IV Prayer as Paradox: Integrating Chapter Seven. Rediscovering Mystery: The Grounding for Paradox Chapter Eight. The Active Contemplative Life: The Process of Paradox Practices for Cultivating Paradox Bring It All Together: Morning Prayer in Four Directions Acknowledgments Notes Resources for Further Reading

Kent Ira Groff

Kent Ira Groff, a spiritual companion for journeyers and leaders, retreat leader and writer-poet, is founding mentor of Oasis Ministries in Pennsylvania. For over two decades, he has practiced and taught the contemplative active life at theological seminaries and retreat centers in the US and abroad. He is author of What Would I Believe If I Didn't Believe Anything? and Facing East, Praying West, among other books.