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Introduction to Landscapes of Prayer

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SoldierCrab
SoldierCrab Member Posts: 3,446 ✭
edited July 2016 in Social Groups

Landscapes of Prayer – Finding God in your world and your life by Margaret Silf.

There are 9 studies in this book….

I will put up today the introduction to the study.

The Power of Landscape

Our photo albums bulge with memories of landscapes we have loved. Just to browse these memories evokes whole stories about ourselves and our live and our world.

Of course we can engage with landscape superficially, just by pulling over into the parking area, viewing the distant scene and then moving on, almost untouched by what we have encountered. Or we can become part of a landscape and allow it to become part of us. We can let it penetrate us with something of its spirit, and from then on we will carry that spirit with us wherever we go, however far we may become separated from the beloved land. This happens, for example, when we have inhabited or frequented certain places for a long time, and they have taken root in our souls and left indelible imprint there. We may discover, perhaps when we have to leave them, that we love them with a power we cannot put into words.

Prayer has its own kind of landscapes, and in our spiritual life too we may engage merely superficially with the mystery that holds us in being, or we may go deeper until we feel we are inhabiting the mystery, as we might inhabit a much-loved land, and the mystery is inhabiting us. The deeper we venture, the more powerfully the mystery we call God will shape us and mould us, and we may discover that we love and long to relate to the mystery in ways that ultimately only silence can express.

This book (study) invites you to wander at will through some of the landscapes of your soul, noticing those that touch your heart in an special way at any particular time, and lingering there for as long as you will, to explore what that soul-space means for you. Different spiritual landscapes will speak to you at different times of your life and in different situations. So take time, wherever you find yourself, to be fully present to that space in your heart, so that you might hear more clearly the message that it holds for you.

And as you wander and linger, may you discover ever-deeper layers of the story God is weaving in your life and in our world.

The chapters are as follows:

  1. Garden  ( Next week we will begin August with this chapter)
  2. Mountain
  3. Seashore
  4. Forest
  5. River
  6. Jungle
  7. Desert
  8. Cave
  9. Night Sky

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  • SoldierCrab
    SoldierCrab Member Posts: 3,446 ✭
    edited July 2016
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    If you want to buy the book it is available both online and in most Christian bookstores.

  • Leila34
    Leila34 Member Posts: 71 ✭
    edited July 2016
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    Looking forto it :) 

  • Andij
    Andij Member Posts: 115 ✭
    edited July 2016
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    Sounds beautiful. Really looking forward to them:)

  • LITHGOW1950
    LITHGOW1950 Member Posts: 314 ✭
    edited July 2016
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    Thank you. Such a beautiful read.

    Anne-Marie ??

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