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