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This engaging and highly readable book offers you guidance for the journey. Sharing stories from her personal life as a spiritual seeker and from her professional career as a retreat leader, spiritual director and teacher, Reverend Jane Vennard illustrates the joys and frustrations of spiritual practice, offers insights from various religious traditions, and provides step-by-step exercises and meditations to practice:
Caring for the body
Rest
Silence Solitude
Letting go
Community
Hospitality
Service
Living gratefully
Table of Contents: Foreword Rami Shapiro
1. The Practice of Caring for Your Body Finding New Images, Deep Wisdom, and Blessings
2. The Practice of Rest Restoring Your Energy, Your Creativity, and Your Spirit
3. The Practice of Silence Finding Spaciousness, Stillness, and Inner Peace
4. The Practice of Solitude Making Friends with Yourself
5. The Practice of Letting Go Releasing Your Attachments, Your Past, and Your Future
6. The Practice of Community Discovering Support, Encouragement, and Interdependence
7. The Practice of Hospitality Inviting, Welcoming, and Nurturing the Stranger
8. The Practice of Service Cultivating Generosity, Kindness, and Joy
9. The Fruits of Practice Living Gratefully, Humbly, and Compassionately
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Fulfill the reality that the glory of God is the human fully alive. "Reverend Vennard is fearlessly awake to the wild dance of life. Rather than sleeping through life, she awakens to it. Rather than escaping from reality, she embraces it. Rather than distracting herself with a life to come, she dares to live the life that is. And she wants you to do all this as well. Read this book. Live this book. Wake up." --from the Foreword In a culture enthralled with technology, striving and speed, people of many faith traditions and no faith tradition long to slow down, pay attention and wake up to the present moment. They want help in realizing their hope that they can become more truly alive. This engaging and highly readable book offers you guidance for the journey. Sharing stories from her personal life as a spiritual seeker and from her professional career as a retreat leader, spiritual director and teacher, Reverend Jane Vennard illustrates the joys and frustrations of spiritual practice, offers insights from various religious traditions, and provides step-by-step exercises and meditations to practice: Caring for the body * Rest * Silence Solitude * Letting go * Community * Hospitality * Service * Living gratefully… (more)