Download or read book Befriending Silence written by Carl McColman and published by Ave Maria Press. This book was released on 2015-11-20 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2016 Georgia Author of the Year: Inspirational-religious books. Respected speaker, author, and Patheos blogger Carl McColman introduces Cistercian spirituality as "the hidden jewel of the Church," presenting a surprisingly contemporary path grounded in monastic tradition. This accessible and comprehensive guide highlights a unique focus on simplicity, living close to the earth, and contemplative prayer, all of which make Cistercian spirituality relevant today. Steeped in chant and silence, grounded in down-to-earth work and service, and immersed in the mystical wisdom of teachers ancient (Bernard of Clairvaux) and modern (Thomas Merton), Cistercian spirituality's beautifully humble path has for centuries made monasteries places of rest, retreat, and renewal. Now, Carl McColman offers the first practical introduction to this ancient, contemplative spirituality for all people. Hailed by reviewers of his many books as playful, and profound, McColman draws on his experience as a lay Cistercian to provide insight into the relevance of the tradition to contemporary issues and spiritual practice. He explains how silence, simplicity, stability, stewardship of the earth, contemplation, ongoing conversion, and devotion to Mary combine to offer a rich and unique path to discipleship and intimacy with God.
Download or read book Befriending written by Joseph A. Payne and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A user-friendly volume that will allow busy people to squeeze in some time for a self-guided retreat on a much needed topic: befriending God, yourself and others.
Download or read book Spirituality for Extroverts written by Nancy Reeves and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does prayer have to be silent? Does meditation have to be solemn? If I’m an extrovert, can I worship God? In this groundbreaking book, psychologist and spiritual adviser Nancy Reeves presents a refreshing view of spirituality that goes beyond personality to provide extroverts (and those who love them) with exciting new ways of approaching God.Reeves explores a wide variety of spiritual practices for extroverts, including:Praying in motionSingingCultivating spiritual friendships Practicing spirituality in groupsIn the end, she urges all of us, extrovert and introvert alike, to seek a mature spirituality that embraces all the aspects of our personalities. Includes questions for reflection and discussion. Perfect for book clubs, discussion groups, and bible study classes. “For some reason, we think of quiet, introverted people as the very name of holiness. This cannot be true, and Nancy Reeves shows us why!”-Richard Rohr, author of Things Hidden: Scripture as Spirituality“I’ve been waiting a long time to read a book like this! Nancy Reeves provides much needed insight and guidance.”-Joyce Rupp, author of Fresh Bread: And Other Gifts of Spiritual Nourishment“As an introvert, I found Reeves’ perspectives eye-opening and enormously helpful. They will change the way I interact with the extroverts in my life. This book should be required reading for anyone offering spiritual guidance.”-Marjorie J. Thompson, author of Soul Feast: An Invitation to the Christian Spiritual LifeNancy Reeves is a clinical psychologist, spiritual director, poet, and author. She is director of the Island Loss Clinic, teaches at the University of Victoria, and conducts many lectures and workshops internationally. She is the author of A Match Made in Heaven: A Bible-Based Guide to Deepening Your Relationship with God and I’d Say Yes, God, If I Knew What You Wanted.
Download or read book The Counseling Skills Practice Manual written by David Hutchinson and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical guide for students who are working on improving their counseling skills, this manual features 12 practice sessions, each of which focuses on a specific counseling skillset. Many of the essential skills are covered, such as using questions, nonverbal behaviors, making reflections of client meaning, and feeling. But the student also gains practice here with important skills, such as learning how to deal with clients in crisis and reluctant clients, how to appropriately confront, and hoe to give and receive accurate and supportive feedback to one another. These practice sessions are designed to help students recognize and build on their natural interpersonal skill set as they learn new skills. They will help students become more competent in their use of counseling skills and feel more comfortable and confident in their roles as emerging counseling professionals. Key features: Offers a comprehensive view of each skill prior to its being demonstrated; connects skills learned to professional practice ; provides ample student review and practice opportunities, including both writtent exercises and role-playing; encourages thorough evaluation ooportunities through both self-evaluation and peer/instructor evaluation.
Download or read book Boundaries for Your Soul written by Alison Cook, PhD and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let Boundaries for Your Soul show you how to turn your shame to joy, your anger to advocacy, and your inner critic into your biggest champion. Do your emotions control you or do you control your emotions? Boundaries for Your Soul, written by bestselling authors and licensed counselors Alison Cook and Kimberly Miller, shows you how to calm the chaos within. This groundbreaking approach will give you the tools you need to: Know what to do when you feel overwhelmed Understand your guilt, anxiety, sadness, and fear Move from doubt and conflict to confidence and peace Find balance and emotional stability Gathering the wisdom from the authors' twenty-five years of combined advanced education, biblical studies, and clinical practice, this book will set you on a journey to become the loving, authentic, joyful person you were created to be. Praise for Boundaries for Your Soul: "Personal growth requires that we create healthy boundaries for our internal world, just as we are to do in our interpersonal relationships. When the various parts of our soul are connected and integrated, the result is that we heal, relate, and function at the highest levels. Alison Cook and Kimberly Miller have written a very helpful, engaging, and practical book on how to accomplish this process." --Dr. John Townsend, New York Times bestselling author of Boundaries and founder of the Townsend Institute "Boundaries for Your Soul spoke to me in echoes of already-known, yet-not-fully-applied truths, as well as with sweet new understandings. For both those familiar with Jesus' inner healing and those new to the process, there is real help here." --Elisa Morgan, author of The Beauty of Broken and The Prayer Coin, cohost of Discover the Word, and president emerita of MOPS International
Download or read book Answering the Contemplative Call written by Carl McColman and published by Hampton Roads Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mystical path is not some sort of static experience for the select few, says Carl McColman, rather, it is a living tradition, a rich and many-layered dimension of spirituality that is in large measure a quest to find the mysteries at the heart of the universe, paradoxically nestled within the heart of your own soul. McColman first introduced readers to Christianity’s lost mystical roots in his popular book, The Big Book of Christian Mysticism. Now McColman is back with Answering the Contemplative Call, to show readers how to apply the riches of the mystical tradition to daily living. This book is organized in three sections: “Recognizing the Call,” Explores how each one of us is called to the mystical life, and what that might look like. “Preparing for the Journey,” shows what we need to do in response to the contemplative call. “Embarking on the Adventure” considers what those first steps on the path might look like. Along the way McColman quotes from the great mystics of the Christian tradition who have also traveled this path, including Teresa of Avila, Thomas Merton, Evelyn Underhill and more. In Answering the Contemplative Call, McColman offers a practice that will help readers come to a place meaning and purpose in their lives.
Download or read book Becoming a Praying Congregation written by Rueben P. Job and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Becoming a Praying Congregation is designed to help leaders teach, inspire and example deeper prayer life for the entire congregation through worship, study, ministry teams and individual devotion. Using ideas and examples from congregations with active prayer ministries, leaders will be inspired to develop deeper prayer practices in: worship decision-making groups prayer ministry team age-level classes households Tools include: worship prayer activities DVD planning ideas for Sunday School or small groups for children, youth and adults guidelines for building or reviving a prayer ministry team help for special services like healing prayer services, meditations, prayer for the church and its mission Rueben Job's When You Pray can be used as a daily devotional for individuals and small groups participating in the program.
Download or read book Nell Gwynne or The prologue A comedy written by Douglas William Jerrold and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Walking Shoes A Soul Journey written by Michael Tracey and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All journeys are journeys of encounter with the Lord who walks with us in the cool of the evening. Sometimes they are deadly silent; other times they are full of travail. But all times, no matter what the occasion or circumstance, they are journeys with rather than against; journeys to rather than from; journeys indwelling rather than dissipating. Any journey demands both a challenge and a risk; an act of faith in what is to come because of the assurance of what is past. Yet, the challenge and risk always leads to a homecoming. And the journey home is always shorter and full of special memories because it embodies the reality of a happy ending. A journey is an exercise in discovery; discovery of latent talents; opportune moments and the creative ability to fashion the tapestry of one’s life under the guidance of the Master Weaver. This book is a journal of life weaved from the fabric of people’s lives. Their hearts are stories of strength and weakness, heroism and heartbreak yet, woven together with hope. It is a sacramentality of life, love and living. May your journey be the same but different.
Download or read book Handbook of Mindfulness in Education written by Kimberly A. Schonert-Reichl and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook addresses the educational uses of mindfulness in schools. It summarizes the state of the science and describes current and emerging applications and challenges throughout the field. It explores mindfulness concepts in scientific, theoretical, and practical terms and examines training opportunities both as an aspect of teachers’ professional development and a means to enhance students’ social-emotional and academic skills. Chapters discuss mindfulness and contemplative pedagogy programs that have produced positive student outcomes, including stress relief, self-care, and improved classroom and institutional engagement. Featured topics include: A comprehensive view of mindfulness in the modern era. Contemplative education and the roots of resilience. Mindfulness practice and its effect on students’ social-emotional learning. A cognitive neuroscience perspective on mindfulness in education that addresses students’ academic and social skills development. Mindfulness training for teachers and administrators. Two universal mindfulness education programs for elementary and middle school students. The Handbook of Mindfulness in Education is a must-have resource for researchers, graduate students, clinicians, and practitioners in psychology, psychiatry, education, and medicine, as well as counseling, social work, and rehabilitation therapy.
Download or read book Notes on Silence written by Cassidy Hall and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Unteachable Lessons written by Carl McColman and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why Christian spirituality must be "caught" rather than "taught." We speak of spirituality as a “journey,” which implies not only a destination toward which we travel, but countless adventures encountered along the way. The journey is the destination—both at once. We may all be trying to get to the heart of God, but there are infinite ways to get there. Can wisdom collected along the pilgrim path even be captured in words, codified into a book? Probably not. And why do the wisest books refuse to offer glib formulas or step-by-step instructions for happiness or enlightenment? Why are the great spiritual classics mostly just an invitation to keep our eyes, ears—and especially hearts—open? Because we’re often stumbling on miracles while we’re looking for something else. Using engaging and disarming stories from his own life, Carl McColman, a leading author of books in spirituality, gently leads readers toward a recognition that although the wisdom of the past is worth reading, hearing or reading others’ experience of God is ultimately no substitute for opening our own eyes, ears, and hearts to God.
Download or read book Instant Karma written by Barbara Ann Kipfer and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Help others. Help yourself. Be a better person, and make the world a better place. Using the wisdom of the East to instruct and inspire, Instant Karma is a universe of things a reader can do, right now, to accumulate good karma. And, like pennies going into a piggy bank, each is a seemingly little thing-but feed the bank day after day and feel it grow richer and happier. Created by Barbara Ann Kipfer, the author whose books-including 14,000 Things to Be Happy About, 8,789 Words of Wisdom, and The Wish List-have 1.2 million copies in print, Instant Karma is a compulsive, densely packed, chunky little book of 10,000 or so suggestions, wishes, thoughts, and the occasional heartening quotation. Line after line, page after page, mesmerizing to read and filled with inspiration, it is the best kind of call to action-good for you and good for others.
Download or read book Elijah and Sabrina written by Philip Patrick and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before they became guardians, he was a troubled boy trying to search for happiness again after dealing with so much sorrow, and she was an innocent girl facing reality for the first time just when she thought life was perfect. Little did they know that their paths were about to cross and form a connection that would change their lives. Five years before Kingdom Guardians, Elijah Khoda meets Sabrina Clarin in the seventh grade. It’s a point in their lives where the world that they knew as kids has grown bitter and diminishes their hopes and courage. Drama forces them to tolerate when they would rather live a normal life and have fun. With no choice but to let reality run its course, they soon meet each other and a friendship is born, one that Elijah has never experienced before as certain feelings begin to develop. After living through rough days, he discovers there is beauty to life. It all comes in different forms, and it’s all because of her. Sabrina accepts her new home in Burns Lake, but in her mind, it’s a refuge after what happened, something she refuses to even talk about. Just as Elijah and Sabrina realize the difference they made in each other’s lives, problems from the past still tamper with their emotions. Meeting a girl with strong affection is all new to Elijah while Sabrina, like never before, had to face a strong entity. Can they still maintain a singular friendship while dealing with internal conflict? Elijah and Sabrina is a heartfelt drama about growing up. It’s a story about discovering a new part of life just when you thought it had nothing else to offer, and it’s about overcoming your fears as you accept the reality of that day and age. Before inheriting powers, they had each other.
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Download or read book Resurrection and Responsibility written by Keith Dyer and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of studies by friends, colleagues, students, and associates of Thorwald Lorenzen centers on his pivotal research interests--the theological and ethical implications of a relational understanding of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. In two major works on the resurrection, Lorenzen demonstrated the radical ramifications for Christian discipleship of affirming a relational perspective on the resurrection, especially with regard to social justice, human rights, ecumenical dialogue, and holistic spirituality. The purpose of this book is to honor the theological work of Thorwald Lorenzen by examining anew and pressing ahead with certain aspects of his own research interests, whether in historical and systematic theology, biblical exegesis and hermeneutics, or social ethics and spirituality.
Download or read book A Year of Daily Offerings written by James Kubicki and published by Ave Maria Press. This book was released on 2016-11-07 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Year of Daily Offerings is a prayerful 366-day experience immersed in the lives of the saints, the rhythm of the Church calendar, and the stories of ordinary people who lived the Eucharist in their daily lives. It will help you reorder not just your devotional life, but the entire way of looking at your day. This thoughtful, yearlong book of morning meditations from Rev. James Kubicki, S.J.—bestselling author of A Heart on Fire—provides a rich array of reflections based on Ignatian spirituality that invite you to begin each day with a sincere offering of your life to God. Combining a contemporary tone with a strong Biblical understanding, Fr. Kubicki shows you how to live your Eucharistic offering each day. He provides a fresh perspective on the promise of connecting with God through the practice of morning prayer by using prayers of the saints, a word to carry throughout the day, and an evening reflection to reflect on the day you offered to God.
