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With step-by-step instructions for over forty ways to pray, this valuable guide contains a wealth of timeless spiritual prayer practices that Christians have used over the last 2000 years from cultures around the world. Among the prayer practices you'll encounter in this book are the daily office, the prayer shawl, praying with icons, centering prayer, fasting, prayer beads, walking a labyrinth, pilgrimage, anointing for healing, and praying the scriptures. Paths to Prayer offers a whole-person approach to prayer that takes into account each person's individuality and doesn't assume we all relate to God in the same way. A prayer styles self-assessment will help you reflect on your life, your preferences, and your unique way of interacting with the world. Try new dimensions of praying-- innovative, searching, relational, and experiential-- to deepen your encounter with the divine.… (more)
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Searching Prayers: Examples of Lord's Prayer, Lectio Divina, Journal prayers, Pilgrimage, Icon, Novenas, Prayers for the Dead.
Experiential Prayers: e.g. Fasting, Breath, Benediction, Blessing,
Relational Prayers: Adoration, Affirmation, Confession, Examen, Daily Office, Tongsung Kido, Prayer Walks (Emmaus, Stations of the Cross).
Innovative Prayer: With Our Bodies, Labyrinth, Home Altars, Ignatian (Guided Imagination), Beads, (Rosary, Chaplet), Mandalas, Dance (described in 2d c Acts of John--circle surround dancer).
Did Jesus dance? Brown cites one of our favorite verses--Matthew 11:16-17 "But to what will I compare this generation? It is like children in the marketplaces and calling to one another, 'We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we wailed, and you did not mourn.'." Brown takes this verse as an invitation from Jesus to become a "dancing people." [312]
The closing Benediction is Philippians 4:6-7. "Do not worry about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your heart and your minds in Christ Jesus."