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Available
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Publication
Wallingford, Pa. : Pendle Hill Publications, 2007.
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ISBN
0875743889 / 9780875743882
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Description
Out of a great hunger for God's love and guidance, Michael Wajda has spent his adult life seeking to experience the presence of God. In small ways and large, his search has been answered. In this pamphlet, he offers readers his personal story and tells what he has learned about the practice of 'Expectant Listening.' He encourages individuals to notice the variety of ways in which God comes to them in their lives, revealing God's "deep, long thread of guidance."
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LibraryThing member QuakerReviews
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
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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. Show Less
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
Wajda discusses "noticing": noticing the times God points us
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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... Show Less
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Call number
CP 388/1