Download or read book Voices from the Ancestors written by Lara Medina and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voices from the Ancestors brings together the reflective writings and spiritual practices of Xicanx, Latinx, and Afro-Latinx womxn and male allies in the United States who seek to heal from the historical traumas of colonization by returning to ancestral traditions and knowledge. This wisdom is based on the authors’ oral traditions, research, intuitions, and lived experiences—wisdom inspired by, and created from, personal trajectories on the path to spiritual conocimiento, or inner spiritual inquiry. This conocimiento has reemerged over the last fifty years as efforts to decolonize lives, minds, spirits, and bodies have advanced. Yet this knowledge goes back many generations to the time when the ancestors understood their interconnectedness with each other, with nature, and with the sacred cosmic forces—a time when the human body was a microcosm of the universe. Reclaiming and reconstructing spirituality based on non-Western epistemologies is central to the process of decolonization, particularly in these fraught times. The wisdom offered here appears in a variety of forms—in reflective essays, poetry, prayers, specific guidelines for healing practices, communal rituals, and visual art, all meant to address life transitions and how to live holistically and with a spiritual consciousness for the challenges of the twenty-first century.
Download or read book Spiritual Expressions written by Nannie Stevens and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-01-29 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spiritual Expressions are true memoirs of Pastor Stevens that she has experienced during her thirty years of ministry. These encounters with the Lord are testimonies to the many ways the Holy Spirit can reveal heavenly messages to us. Allow these pages to enlighten the soul, enhance spiritual vision and encourage you to seek new heights on your spiritual walk. Through the guidance of the Holy Spirit, you can see what the natural eye cannot. Expect a new level of awareness within the five senses each of us process to soar to new heights as you read these pages of inspirations. From visions of a Kingdom to the suffering of unbearable pain, Pastor Stevens encourages us to trust in God.
Download or read book Spiritual Expressions written by Linda Blankenship Ousley and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-07 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is dedicated to my son, Micheual Vale Carr who died at the age of nineteen on August 1, 1989 of a brain injury. Special thanks to my sister Charese L. Nederveld For all her help and encouragement for without her this book would not have been possible. and to my husband Gary Ousley for his encouragement and support.
Download or read book Faith Books Spiritual Journaling written by Sharon Soneff and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Four Spiritualities written by Peter Tufts Richardson and published by Consulting Psychologists Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator to illuminate four spiritualities that correspond to sixteen personality types
Download or read book Literary Expressions of African Spirituality written by Carol P. Marsh-Lockett and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a focus on the connected spiritual legacy of the black Atlantic, Literary Expressions of African Spirituality leads the way to more comprehensive trans-geographical studies of African spirituality in black art. With essays focusing on African spirituality in creative works by several trans-Atlantic black authors across varying locations in the Ameri-Atlantic diaspora, this collection reveals and examines their shared spiritual cosmology. Diasporic in scope, Literary Expressions of African Spirituality offers new readings of black literatures through the prism of spiritual memory that survived the damaging impact of trans-Atlantic slaving. This memory is a significant thread that has often been missed in the reading and teaching of the literatures of the African diaspora. Essays in this collection explore unique black angles of seeing and ways of knowing that characterize African spiritual presence and influence in trans-Atlantic black artistic productions. Essays exploring works ranging from turn-of-the-century African American figure W.E.B. DuBois, South African novelist Zakes Mda, Haitian novelists Edwidge Danticat and Jacques Roumain, as well as African belief systems such as Voudoun and Candomble, provide a scope not yet offered in a single published volume. This collection explores the deep and often unconscious spiritual and psychosocial connectedness of people of African descent in the African and Ameri-Atlantic world.
Download or read book Illuminations written by Mark L. Tompkins and published by Celestial Arts. This book was released on 2006 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is precisely when we are struggling with doubt and confusion-or the persistent sense that there must be something more-that spiritual exploration begins. Considering the questions we often share when pursuing or choosing our beliefs allows us to deepen our understanding and empathy for others-even as we travel along disparate sacred paths. In ILLUMINATIONS, Mark L. Tompkins and Jennifer McMahon have compiled a profound and visually stunning collection of original artworks, photographs, short prose pieces, poems, and interview excerpts contributed by more than 180 artists and writers from 43 countries. Instead of attempting to provide answers or explain doctrine, ILLUMINATIONS gives voice to a worldwide collective of truth seekers, including Nobel Laureate Desmond Tutu, peace activist Fatima Gailani, bestselling authors Julia Cameron and Marianne Williamson, Reverend Tamara Siuda, and spiritual leader ShantiMayi. Representing a diverse range of cultures, traditions, and faiths, Illuminations is a provocative celebration of the personal spiritual experience.Reviews"This celebration of curiosity and questioning will appeal to those who are on a spiritual journey and find individual exploration to be more fulfilling than institutional religious experience." -Publishers Weekly"A refreshing counterpoint to the one-answer religious tract. . . The collection is beautiful visually and intellectually. The works are spiritual without being sentimental, no easy task. . . This book is a blessing."-Dallas Morning News and The Oklahoman "Mark Tompkins and Jennifer McMahon have undertaken an important task, mining the spiritual diversity that lies at the heart of humanity. Understanding each other'¬?s spiritual quest will lead to deeper healing for us all." -Marianne Williamson, author of A Return to Love and Everyday Grace"Illuminations merges art and spirituality into an elegant and moving collection of profound beauty. This book is a physical blessing to all who are fortunate enough to view it." -Arielle Ford, founding partner of The Spiritual Cinema Circle "Illuminations helps the reader move past understanding to empathy, which is the way to peace." -Jody Williams, 1997 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate "An important book, Illuminations allows all of us to deepen our connections with one another through the profound questions that live in every faith, every culture, and every heart. This is a book that affirms the inner dependence and interdependence of out time." -Lynne Twist, author of The Soul of Money "Sometimes religious systems expand life, introducing us to our spiritual natures; sometimes they diminish life, surrounding our fears with the mirage of certainty. In this book, Mark Tompkins and Jennifer McMahon open our spirituality in wondrous new ways, challenging and deepening all religious systems." -John Selby Spong, former Episcopal Bishop of Newark, New Jersey "Illuminations portrays an ecumenical inquiry in to the questions that lead the reader to uncover and remember the essences of living. Its symphony of stories and images lifts the spirit and invites conversations designed to end the separation of humanity from life and to reconnect us to that ineffable light that guides our journey." -Juanita Brown and David Isaacs, authors of The World Caf?© and founders of the World Caf?© Community Foundation
Download or read book Spiritual Expressions written by Virginia Dixon Hightower and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Spiritual Expressions of the Heart written by Sherred Ann and published by Author House. This book was released on 2006-01-13 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with coping with life and every day struggles. It is about giving praise for what God has done and will continue to do. This book deals with relationships, even getting over being hurt by those you love. It is inspiration that no matter where you are in life, God is actually there and He truly is concerned about you and your feelings as a child of God. God wants us to know that we are overcomers and we can always go through with the help of His divine Spirit. God has so much to offer us and we should be grateful in our hearts for all things, for they work together for the good of those who love God. This book is also about my personal expressions while I was going through changes in my life. I found inner strength from God as I wrote my feelings down and I was able to endure.
Download or read book African Spirituality written by Jacob Kẹhinde Olupona and published by World Spirituality. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Africa moves into the 21st century it faces new spiritual, social, and economic challenges.
Download or read book Four Spiritualities written by Peter Tufts Richardson and published by Davies-Black Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Rosetta Stone to contemporary spiritual choices. For those seeking to explore their own spirituality as well as those of others.
Download or read book Evolved Expressions written by Laura Bogen and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Greetings Spiritual Expressions 2 written by Broderbund and published by Broderbund.com. This book was released on 1999-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Celebration of Discipline written by Richard J. Foster and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 1988-10-05 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the twenty years since its publication, Celebration of Discipline has helped over a million seekers discover a richer spiritual life infused with joy, peace, and a deeper understanding of God. For this special twentieth anniversary edition, Richard J. Foster has added an introduction, in which he shares the story of how this beloved and enduring spiritual guidebook came to be. Hailed by many as the best modern book on Christian spirituality, Celebration of Discipline explores the "classic Disciplines," or central spiritual practices, of the Christian faith. Along the way, Foster shows that it is only by and through these practices that the true path to spiritual growth can be found. Dividing the Disciplines into three movements of the Spirit, Foster shows how each of these areas contribute to a balanced spiritual life. The inward Disciplines of meditation, prayer, fasting, and study, offer avenues of personal examination and change. The outward Disciplines of simplicity, solitude, submission, and service, help prepare us to make the world a better place. The corporate Disciplines of confession, worship, guidance, and celebration, bring us nearer to one another and to God. Foster provides a wealth of examples demonstrating how these Disciplines can become part of our daily activities-and how they can help us shed our superficial habits and "bring the abundance of God into our lives." He offers crucial new insights on simplicity, demonstrating how the biblical view of simplicity, properly understood and applied, brings joy and balance to our inward and outward lives and "sets us free to enjoy the provision of God as a gift that can be shared with others." The discussion of celebration, often the most neglected of the Disciplines, shows its critical importance, for it stands at the heart of the way to Christ. Celebration of Discipline will help motivate Christians everywhere to embark on a journey of prayer and spiritual growth.
Download or read book Spiritual Self Discovery and Self Expression written by Charles Lelly and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2002-11-25 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parents looking for a poetry book... the whole family can enjoy? Teachers looking for poems to make learning fun... for every pupil, girl or boy? Students six, sixteen, twenty or seventy-six... seeking "cool" things to learn, or to do? Poetry For Growing... is what you''re looking for. This book was written especially for you. Poetry For Growing has seven sections...Each informative and unique, you''ll find Poems by the current author... And by other poets, skillfully combined. You''ll find stories, skits musical plays in rhyme...philosophical verse, tributes, even a rap To which children, preteens, adolescents... and adults, young or old can adapt. A Seven Section Overview "Poetry for Growing in Self Knowledge," Can help to increase self esteem. "Poetry For Growing in Spiritual Awareness," Can help to explore what faith really means. "Poetry For Growing Toward a Philosophy of Life," Provides opportunities to exercise the mind. "Poetry for Growing in Literature, Language & the Creative Arts," Reveals some of the beauty, which in life, one can find. "Poetry For Growing in Scientific Knowledge," presents A "Panorama of Science," a delightful musical play. "Poetry for Growing in Social and Civic Awareness."
Download or read book Spiritual Expressions written by Tamala J. Coleman and published by . This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spiritual Meditation Revealed Expressions The words in this book are simply the expressions from my heart. Encouraging others is the main goal. I feel this is much needed today. The expression of poetry and the expression through words. My soul cries out and rejoices in knowing that reading the poetry therein will enlighten someone's life and their heart. As I spend time meditating and thinking about my life, I know that I can conquer anything I put my mind to. The word says I can do ALL things not SOME things but ALL things through Christ which strengthens me. I encourage everyone who are faced with trials and problems in their life would appreciate life everyday and conquer those things that may seem impossible. I thank God for the inspiration and the words that flow through me not only through myself but by observing others. My expressions simply are expressions of love, hope and encouragement. I will seek to obtain all the riches that God will have for me in this world, so I place all my trust in him who created me and gave me this inspiration to do what I feel is my purpose in life. Life is filled with let downs and put downs and all other downs you may think of, but if we focus on the happier side of life we will realize the tremendous joy that can be found through peace and longevity this life has in store. I thank God for my family and friends for support and for encouraging me to publish this book. May we all search for our own love of life!! Tamala Coleman
Download or read book Literary Expressions of African Spirituality written by Carol P. Marsh-Lockett and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a focus on the connected spiritual legacy of the black Atlantic, Literary Expressions of African Spirituality leads the way to more comprehensive trans-geographical studies of African spirituality in black art. With essays focusing on African spirituality in creative works by several trans-Atlantic black authors across varying locations in the Ameri-Atlantic diaspora, this collection reveals and examines their shared spiritual cosmology. Diasporic in scope, Literary Expressions of African Spirituality offers new readings of black literatures through the prism of spiritual memory that survived the damaging impact of trans-Atlantic slaving. This memory is a significant thread that has often been missed in the reading and teaching of the literatures of the African diaspora. Essays in this collection explore unique black angles of seeing and ways of knowing that characterize African spiritual presence and influence in trans-Atlantic black artistic productions. Essays exploring works ranging from turn-of-the-century African American figure W.E.B. DuBois, South African novelist Zakes Mda, Haitian novelists Edwidge Danticat and Jacques Roumain, as well as African belief systems such as Voudoun and Candomble, provide a scope not yet offered in a single published volume. This collection explores the deep and often unconscious spiritual and psychosocial connectedness of people of African descent in the African and Ameri-Atlantic world.
