The Flowing Grace Of Now

Author : Macrina Wiederkehr
Publisher : Ave Maria Press
ISBN 13 : 1932057196
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Flowing Grace of Now written by Macrina Wiederkehr and published by Ave Maria Press. This book was released on 2019-10-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of a 2020 Excellence in Publishing Award from the Association for Catholic Publishers (second place, prayer). For more than twenty-five years, Sr. Macrina Wiederkehr has authored such bestselling books on Catholic spirituality as Seven Sacred Pauses and A Tree Full of Angels. In The Flowing Grace of Now—her first book in almost a decade—Wiederkehr offers weekly reflections that reveal the spiritual teachers at work in your life, inviting you to listen to these teachers and learn from their wisdom. “There is an old proverb that says, ‘When the student is ready the teacher will arrive.’ I think I have been ready for a long time, yet perhaps I have spent too much time looking for the perfect teacher rather than seeing the teachers that arrive in unexpected ways.” With these words, retreat guide and author Sr. Macrina Wiederkehr begins The Flowing Grace of Now, a year-long companion that ushers you into the presence of teachers already at work in your life—teachers intent on helping you deepen your faith. These teachers are not necessarily saints, writers, or theologians, but rather ordinary people, events, and experiences whose presence already permeates your life. These include: biblical characters, day and night, silence, the virtues, and joy in another person’s good fortune. These, Wiederkehr suggests, are the kind of teachers who are the result of the flow of grace in your life. She encourages you to become aware of how they are at work in you and what you might learn from them. Each reflection begins with a scripture text leading you into the spirit of the week. A brief meditation on this scripture serves as a catalyst for the Word to take root in your heart and a closing prayer sums up the week. A teacher is suggested for you. The final quotation from a spiritual writer contains the spirit of your teacher and can assist you in embracing the wisdom of that teacher. Using this book as a year-long weekly guide can be an enriching opportunity to deepen and transform your faith life.

Author : Macrina Wiederkehr
Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 : 0814639585
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Abide written by Macrina Wiederkehr and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Gospel of John Jesus directs us, Abide in me, as I abide in you. This book is an invitation to make the Word of God your home through the practice of lectio divina .Macrina Wiederkehr, OSB, encourages you to turn the words of Scripture over in your heart as a plough turns over the soil to welcome the seed. In these scriptural meditations, the piercing reflective questions and personal prayers lead the reader into a deeper relationship with the Divine. Aware that drawing near the Word of God requires a special kind of presence, the author invites you to breathe in the Word, wait before the Word, walk through the pages of Scripture as a pilgrim, and, finally, abide in an intimate and transforming communion with God. The format of the book lends itself not only to daily personal prayer and reflection, but to group faith sharing as well. Macrina Wiederkehr, OSB, author of the popular A Tree Full of Angels (HarperCollins) and Seven Sacred Pauses (Ave Maria), is well known for her creative spiritual writings and retreat ministry. She is also a regular columnist for Stepping Stones, the Little Rock Scripture Study newsletter. She has lived monastic life for fifty years and makes her home with the Sisters of St. Scholastica, a Benedictine monastery in Fort Smith, Arkansas. Writing and retreat ministry have become a part of her evolving cal. Visit her personal blog at http://macrina-underthesycamoretree.blogspot.com/.

Author : Macrina Wiederkehr
Publisher : Ave Maria Press
ISBN 13 : 1933495456
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seven Sacred Pauses written by Macrina Wiederkehr and published by Ave Maria Press. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over 25,000 copies sold of the hardcover version, this paperback edition of Macrina Wiederkehr's bestselling book,Seven Sacred Pauses: Living Mindfully Through the Hours of the Day, invites readers to learn how to pray the hours through the practice of consciously pausing at the seven sacred moments of each day, making their daily passage through time a more sacred pilgrimage. Using scripture, poetry, reflections, personal stories, and quotes from a rich array of spiritual teachers for many religions, Wiederkehr helps readers become more attuned to living in the present moment and develop a kindred spirit with the rich tradition of the sacred hours. Seven Sacred Pauses is a wonderful gift to those who seek to find balance in their busy days and to bring the practice of the Divine Hours home to their own hearts.

Author : David Mathis
Publisher : Crossway
ISBN 13 : 1433550504
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Habits of Grace written by David Mathis and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2016-02-12 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Christian life is built on three seemingly unremarkable practices: reading the Bible, prayer, and fellowship with other believers. However, according to David Mathis, such “habits of grace” are the God-designed channels through which his glorious grace flows—making them life-giving practices for all Christians. Whether it’s hearing God’s voice (the Word), having his ear (prayer), or participating in his body (fellowship), such spiritual rhythms of the Christian life have the power to awaken our souls to God’s glory and stir our hearts for lifelong service in his name. What’s more, these seemingly simple practices grant us access to a host of spiritual blessings that we can only begin to imagine this side of eternity—and the incredible joy that such blessings bring to God’s children today.

Author : Macrina Wiederkehr
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062036483
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Tree Full of Angels written by Macrina Wiederkehr and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-01-10 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Benedictine tradition and practice of divine reading made accessible for everyone.

Author : John Piper
Publisher : Multnomah
ISBN 13 : 1601424353
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Future Grace, Revised Edition written by John Piper and published by Multnomah. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore this stunning quality of God’s grace: It never ends! In this revision of a foundational work, John Piper reveals how grace is not only God’s undeserved gift to us in the past, but also God’s power to make good happen for us today, tomorrow, and forever. True life for the follower of Jesus really is a moment-by-moment trust that God is dependable and fulfills his promises. This is living by faith in future grace, which provides God's mercy, provision, and wisdom—everything we need—to accomplish his good plans for us. In Future Grace, chapter by chapter—one for each day of the month—Piper reveals how cherishing the promises of God helps break the power of persistent sin issues like anxiety, despondency, greed, lust, bitterness, impatience, pride, misplaced shame, and more. Ultimate joy, peace, and hope in life and death are found in a confident, continual awareness of the reality of future grace.

Author : Kristina Dryža
Publisher : DoctorZed Publishing
ISBN 13 : 099244733X
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grace and the Wind written by Kristina Dryža and published by DoctorZed Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grace thinks everything about her life is wrong. When the Wind makes a dramatic entry into her life, it forces Grace to question her sense of reality. Despite her initial reluctance, Grace and the Wind gradually develop an intense relationship through a series of extraordinary conversations. The Wind teaches Grace to perceive life through the wisdom conveyed in nature’s rhythms–circadian cycles, tidal and lunar sequences and the movements of the seasons–so that nature’s intelligence becomes her intelligence. Grace struggles with the teachings, but with the Wind as her guide she discovers how everything creates out of patterns. Could the key to flowing with the rhythms of nature, and not against them, be found in the essence of her name? In Grace and the Wind, futurist Kristina Dryža delivers a modern allegorical novel on how the very nature of life itself is expressed and experienced as rhythmic patterns of energy.

Author : Macrina Wiederkehr
Publisher : Sorin Books
ISBN 13 : 9781932057317
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Open Wide My Heart written by Macrina Wiederkehr and published by Sorin Books. This book was released on 2022-04-22 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just before she died of brain cancer in April 2020, Macrina Wiederkehr gifted her friend and coauthor Joyce Rupp with one of the many journals she kept over the years where she reflected on scripture and her own spirituality. Rupp writes in the foreword for Open Wide My Heart, "I observed certain currents of yearning and faithfulness that remained throughout the decades: a thirst for an ever-fuller relationship with the Holy One; a tremendous respect for scripture as an incentive for spiritual transformation; a recognition of not being all she hoped to be regarding her inner growth; and a continual return to a belief in her essential goodness." That is the essence of Open Wide My Heart, which pulls together two years of personal reflections by Wiederkehr, a beloved spiritual author, popular retreat leader, and Benedictine sister. These brief yet poignant writings serve as guideposts as you begin or deepen your scripture study and offer gentle direction for your faith and a better understanding of daily life. Wiederkehr also shares nuggets of spiritual wisdom she gained in her reading, including experiencing God in the everyday; living fully present in the moment; and accepting the grace that comes from God, other people in your life, and the world around you. Open Wide My Heart is an invitation to learn from a bestselling spiritual writer's practice and witness her deeply meditative approach to scripture and life. In the process, you can grow in confidence in your own scripture reading.

Author : Bonnie St. John
Publisher : FaithWords
ISBN 13 : 0446550698
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Live Your Joy written by Bonnie St. John and published by FaithWords. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joy is something that comes from the inside out. It feels like a flowing grace, a feeling of goodness all around, a sense of well-being through good and bad. It is love, gratitude, faith and empowerment all wrapped together. Joy deepens our experiences. It opens us to seeing a more beautiful sunset, appreciating rather than fault finding, to believing in oneself. Here are some of the things Bonnie St. John has learned about finding joy. . . Discover the power of your own dreams and personal vision. Each day make the choice of joy over bitterness. Strengthen you self-confidence. . . shape yourself, don't let others shape you Clarify what matters most to you Allow spontaneous, surprising gifts of joy to redirect your schedule. Partner with God...the entire power of the universe is on our side. Become more helping, more healing and more accepting . None of this is easy and Bonnie admits that she's not able to live her joy every minute of every day. But she does so now more often than she used to. And, more often than she used to, she feels love from others, feels compassion in painful situations, and lives more fully and joyfully.

Author : Loretta Engelhardt
Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 : 1452571732
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Choose Grace written by Loretta Engelhardt and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if a child, given away at birth, discovers that this very act would set her on the track for a grace-filled life? What if her journey was filled with discovery, passion, and a will to share the startling realization that we can move beyond Karma? Now with her book, Choose Grace, Why Now Is the Time, Loretta invites you to experience your own grace-filled life, and, with her stories and insights, she will show you the way. She will show you how to move beyond the Law of Karma, or the Cause-and-Effect paradigm, to a life filled with love and productivity within the Laws of Grace. You can experience this gift by: - recognizing and enforcing the Grace that is already present in your life, and - invoking grace and adopting the intentions and behaviors that uplift you to live within the higher organization of grace. Living within the Laws of Grace, Loretta knows, is to experience love, joy, clarity, power to manifest, dimensionality, synchronicity and freedom. Grace is our birthright, and choosing grace opens us to the challenge of living peaceful and purposeful, love-filled lives.