Dancing at the Still Point: Retreat Practices for a Busy Life - Brossura

Simmonds, Gemma

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0281084718 ISBN 13: 9780281084715

Casa editrice: Form, 2021

Riassunto

Retreats give us a space for contemplation and developing our relationship with God, but they aren’t always possible. So can we still appreciate and detect the everyday God, even without special 'holy' places and spiritual practices?

Dancing at the Still Point is a book for those who can't or aren't ready to go away for a residential Christian retreat, but who want to be in daily relationship and connect with God in a satisfying way.

In sessions that you can work through at your own pace, Gemma Simmonds guides us through the practices and disciplines of retreats, such as being still physically and spiritually, developing a habit of prayer and learning some basic discernment skills. With insights from the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises, she explores how we can fold these practices into every day and shows that a rich life of prayer, in which we have time and space to let God be present, is achievable even in a busy working or family life.

Practical and flexible, Dancing at the Still Point will help you find a richer and more balanced life, where the spiritual takes its rightful place amid all the other calls on time and attention.

Core sessions and extra sessions, as time is available, with insights from the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises. Will help readers to realize that a rich life of prayer is possible for ordinary people, and that getting some time and space to let God be present to them is achievable even in a busy working or family life. Inner stillness can lead to a richer life (the dance). ‘The glory of God is a human being fully alive; and human life consists in beholding God’ (Irenaeus). The reader will discover what it means to become fully alive in this sense and how accessible this is for ordinary people. Short chunks with a thematic approach that readers can work through at their own pace, arranged as a retreat done whenever the reader can fit it in, with a guide at the beginning or end to help the reader tailor the material to the time available.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Dr Gemma Simmonds CJ is a sister of the Congregation of Jesus, Director of the Religious Life Institute and Senior Lecturer in Pastoral Theology, Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology, Cambridge. She teaches Christian Spirituality at the Cambridge Theological Federation. She has been a spiritual director, retreat giver and lecturer for over 25 years, working globally. She is the author of The Way of Ignatius (SPCK, 2019).

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Form
• Data di pubblicazione: 2021
• ISBN 10: 0281084718
• ISBN 13: 9780281084715
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 128
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile