Expectant listening : finding God's thread of guidance

by Michael F. Wajda

Other authorsChel Avery (Editor), Shirley Dodson (Publications Staff), Mary Hegelsen Gabel (Designer)
Pamphlet, 2007

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Available

Call number

CP 388/2

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Pendle Hill Pamphlet, meditation, prayer, listening, worship, Meeting for Worship, Quaker theology

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Wallingford, Pa. : Pendle Hill Publications, 2007.

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This wonderful pamphlet offers perceptive and useful guidance on what we are doing in Quaker worship, and how to do it, and thus is a valuable resource for deepening meeting for worship. He counsels noticing, patience, and a regular spiritual practice, as well as putting aside our own thoughts to center on inward attention to the spirit. He discusses and gives examples of the guidance to be received from expectant listening. His report of his own thread of messages is inspiring.… (more)
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LibraryThing member kaulsu
Expectant listening: do we really expect to hear God in our lives? Do we actually expect to find God's guidance? Even more, do we expect our Meetings to last as long as they need, or do we expect them to end at or near the end of an hour?

Wajda discusses "noticing": noticing the times God points us to something important, whether in Meeting or on a walk. Wajda discusses the importance of spiritual practices in an ongoing manner. He opens his journal to us (a bit) that he has been keeping since 1970--50 years! I have yet to actually keep a practice going for 50 days...… (more)

Subjects

Public worship Society of Friends
Silence Religious aspects Society of Friends
Society of Friends Doctrines
Spiritual life Society of Friends

ISBN

0875743889 / 9780875743882

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Pendle Hill Pamphlet 388

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CP 388/2

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