prayer

If we believe in God's love for us, perhaps we will believe in our own ability to love. We pray to accept the grace to love. May each of these thirty-one days of prayer for love challenge, invite, inspire, and inform us to love more fully, wisely, and well.

Linking contemporary women with women across the ages, the daily readings in this book offer a rich diversity of voices, ranging from Annie Dillard to Madeleine L'Engle to Chung Hyun Kyung to Soujourner Truth to Hildegard of Bingen.

An introduction to the requirements of a life of prayer and the resources of the Christian spiritual tradition. The author draws generously on the great Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox mystics and theologians and on modern poets, writers, and teachers to speak to the heart of Christian life.

Enchanting in its simplicity, book offers practical guidelines for personal prayer life. In exemplary way author prepares the reader for establishing a live personal contact with God through prayer. His rich background (Archbishop Bloom is an Orthodox Archbishop) combined with previous life experiences (surgeon physician during the time of II World War) offers astonishing depth combined with life applicable illustrations of the process of building of personal prayer life.

Mother outlines the basic truths on which the life of prayer is based and provides helpful suggestions for dealing with some of the greatest difficulties in prayer.

On Becoming a Musical, Mystical Bear attempts to answer the question of how we as Americans can develop our capacities to grow into life within the matrix of American culture. Exploring the physiological and social response which is prayer, the author concludes that the calling to mysticism and prophecy make up adult spirituality.

Written for those who want to pray but think they cannot, for those who would like to pray better but don't know how to go about it.

Will motivate viewers to examine their experiences of prayer The message of God's love is revealed through the personal witness of those featured in this program. 9 segments.