Just as a garden needs nurturing to grow and thrive, so does your relationship with God. Flourish: Prayers for a Well-Tended Heart features 75 prayers to help you cultivate faith and connection with your Creator. Every prayer is accented with a flower from the wild so you can admire God’s beautiful handiwork as you reflect on His promises. A short description or interesting fact about each flower is included.
Just as a garden needs nurturing to grow and thrive, so does your relationship with God. Flourish: Devotions for a Well-Tended Heart, features 75 devotions to help you dig deeper into your faith and cultivate trust in God's promises for your life. Every reading is accented with a flower from the cottage garden so you can admire God's beautiful handiwork as you reflect on Him. A short description or interesting fact about each flower is included with each devotional reading.
Just as a garden needs nurturing to grow and thrive, so does your relationship with God. Flourish: Devotions for a Well-Tended Heart, features 75 devotions to help you dig deeper into your faith and cultivate trust in God’s promises for your life. Every reading is accented with a flower from the cottage garden so you can admire God’s beautiful handiwork as you reflect on Him. A short description or interesting fact about each flower is included with each devotional reading.
“A triumph. This novel’s haunting strength will hold the reader until the very end and make Faith and her story impossible to forget.” —Richmond Times Dispatch “Extraordinary.” —Orlando Sentinel From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult (Nineteen Minutes, Change of Heart, Handle with Care) comes Keeping Faith: an “addictively readable” (Entertainment Weekly) novel that “makes you wonder about God. And that is a rare moment, indeed, in modern fiction” (USA Today).
Daily Prayer 2006 provides a simple order of prayer for each day of the liturgical year. Each page is dated and includes a psalm, scripture reading reflection, intercessions, the Lord's Prayer, and a closing prayer. Its easy-to-use format makes it a great introduction to Catholic prayer for catechumens and candidates for Confirmation and full communion.
Daily Prayer 2003 draws on the long tradition of Christian prayer, especially the Liturgy of the Hours and lectio divina, holy reading, providing a simple order of prayer for each day of the liturgical year. Each daily prayer page is dated and includes a psalm, scripture reading, reflection, intercessions, the Lord's Prayer and a closing prayer. The introduction provides a brief background on the tradition of daily prayer as well as ideas for using the book for prayer alone or with a small group. The portable size of this everyday book makes it convenient to carry in a purse, briefcase or backpack. Its easy-to-use format makes it a great introduction to Catholic prayer for catechumens and candidates for confirmation and full communion, and provides an easy way for high school students, teachers and parishioners to get into a habit of daily prayer.
When asked by his barber and good friend, Peter Beskendorf, for some practical guidance on how to prepare oneself for prayer, Luther responded by writing this brief treatise, first published in the spring of 1535. After 500 years, his instruction continues to offer words of spiritual nurture for us today.
What happens when a former Zen Buddhist monk and his feminist wife experience an apparition of the Virgin Mary? “This book could not have come at a more auspicious time, and the message is mystical perfection, not to mention a courageous one. I adore this book.”—Caroline Myss, author of Anatomy of the Spirit Before a vision of a mysterious “Lady” invited Clark Strand and Perdita Finn to pray the rosary, they were not only uninterested in becoming Catholic but finished with institutional religion altogether. Their main spiritual concerns were the fate of the planet and the future of their children and grandchildren in an age of ecological collapse. But this Lady barely even referred to the Church and its proscriptions. Instead, she spoke of the miraculous power of the rosary to transform lives and heal the planet, and revealed the secrets she had hidden within the rosary’s prayers and mysteries—secrets of a past age when forests were the only cathedrals and people wove rose garlands for a Mother whose loving presence was as close as the ground beneath their feet. She told Strand and Finn: The rosary is My body, and My body is the body of the world. Your body is one with that body. What cause could there be for fear? Weaving together their own remarkable story of how they came to the rosary, their discoveries about the eco-feminist wisdom at the heart of this ancient devotion, and the life-changing revelations of the Lady herself, the authors reveal an ancestral path—available to everyone, religious or not—that returns us to the powerful healing rhythms of the natural world.
