Kent Ira Groff

Honest to God Prayer (eBook, ePUB)

Spirituality as Awareness, Empowerment, Relinquishments and Paradox

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Turner Publishing Company
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781594734922
• Artikelnr.: 50002135

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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