tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217199.post9060595254514050150..comments2024-03-24T11:30:08.199-07:00Comments on Can you believe?: More on prayerJohan Maurerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13771067774042071617noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217199.post-2466976719311810612010-11-22T12:50:04.828-08:002010-11-22T12:50:04.828-08:00My favorites are "Prayer and Temperament"...My favorites are "Prayer and Temperament" by Chester P Michael and Marie C Norrisey (Open Door) and "Paths to Prayer" by Patricia D Brown (Jossey-Bass). Both explore a wide variety of prayer forms and look at what prayers can be helpful to what temperament at different times. Helps broaden the definition of prayer and appreciate that we have different prayer needs that may change throughout our lives and circumstances.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217199.post-60016075005385657562010-11-20T07:49:04.401-08:002010-11-20T07:49:04.401-08:00Johan,
I join my voice to others thanking you for ...Johan,<br />I join my voice to others thanking you for these posts on prayer. I will respond more fully in my own blog. But I want to say briefly that for years I've sensed God calling me to a life of prayer (above all else), and that I do it very poorly. Even so, I'm learning to carry this calling both seriously (giving it the weight it deserves) and lightly. The Jesus Prayer helps me tremendously and, as in your case, has become a way of being with God, a connection on many levels to Reality/reality. And also that I'm learning the value of both contemplative (being/relational) and intercessory (missional) prayer. I'm convinced you can't do either, without the other. A deepening relationship with God has to result in some kind of cooperation with God's purposes in the world. Anyway, I hope to write on this in my own blog. Thank you again for your encouragement.<br /><br />Nancy<br /><br />PS: What a great photo of Judy!Nancyhttp://www.nancyjthomas.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217199.post-44539829735096074492010-11-20T07:34:32.623-08:002010-11-20T07:34:32.623-08:00Thomas Keating's Open Mind, Open Heart. This ...Thomas Keating's Open Mind, Open Heart. This is a good guidebook for centering/listening prayer.<br /><br />A comment on the previous posting on prayer: When we pray for someone who is seriously ill, our hope must be for that person to experience the healing power of God's love. One outcome may be healing of the physical illness, but the more important outcome is feeling at peace with whatever comes. In Elias Hicks' Journal he frequently reports being moved to caution Friends to prepare for their death. He certainly meant to tidy things up so as not to leave a burden on their survivors, but even more I think he meant to begin to live in God to the extent that death would no longer be threatening. (I have far to go on both fronts, but hope to keep these goals before me.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217199.post-50327111410984300662010-11-19T16:15:49.727-08:002010-11-19T16:15:49.727-08:00Well of course Kelly - aaah! I had never thought o...Well of course Kelly - aaah! I had never thought of putting him in the same category as Bloom - but then when I consider whom I value, then I guess I already have. <br /><br />I have a first edition of Testament of Devotion picked up from the USA via EBay which I treasure. How I wish more people would read this simple, slender volume and think of the simple, spiritual life and world of Thomas Kelly.Brigidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07862531789968068093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217199.post-50502688448488604862010-11-19T08:48:23.491-08:002010-11-19T08:48:23.491-08:00This is very cool! I'm tremendously greatful ...This is very cool! I'm tremendously greatful to see all these good recommendations for books on prayer that I've never even glanced at. <br /><br />Thanks, Johan and Miss Eagle!Jay T.http://jtblog.lindajohansen.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217199.post-59836778077497264972010-11-19T08:42:10.256-08:002010-11-19T08:42:10.256-08:00I like these two:
Foster, R.J. Prayer: Finding ...I like these two:<br /><br />Foster, R.J. <i>Prayer: Finding the heart's true home.</i> 1992. (San Francisco: Harper).<br /><br />Buttrick, G.A. <i>Prayer</i> 1942. (New York: Abingdon-Cokesbury).<br /><br />I found the second one through a collection called <i>Devotional Classics</i> that Richard Foster and James Bryan Smith edited. 1993. (San Francisco: Harper). It has 80 some pages on <i>the prayer-filled life</i>.Jay T.http://jtblog.lindajohansen.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217199.post-66789446929841753042010-11-19T02:57:57.859-08:002010-11-19T02:57:57.859-08:00Thank you!! I'm looking at the Johnston book y...Thank you!! I'm looking at the Johnston book you recommended (<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=P0vuL9P4nNYC&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false" rel="nofollow">here's a link</a> that works better for me)--and it reminded me that I too read William Johnston and found him fascinating. The book I remember is <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=8Y2gX6JQr-4C&lpg=PP1&dq=William%20Johnston&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false" rel="nofollow"><i>The Inner Eye of Love</i></a>--I'm sure I still have a copy somewhere in our boxes of books back in the USA.<br /><br />I'm glad you like Anthony Bloom! His "writing" is so warm and generous. (Much of it is transcribed from his talks.) In some ways he reminds me of Thomas Kelly, though their backgrounds are so dramatically different. I love Kelly's sense of urgency, but what drew me to Anthony Bloom early on is that Bloom gives more personal examples and stories, whereas Kelly tends to be more prescriptive and philosophical. (Well, he was a philosopher, after all.)Johan Maurerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13771067774042071617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217199.post-51576493097376915222010-11-19T01:25:56.791-08:002010-11-19T01:25:56.791-08:00The book on prayer I would commend is Being in Lov...The book on prayer I would commend is Being in Love by William Johnston. It is on line as a Google book at http://bit.ly/aNhnX0. Thank you for your list. Anthony Bloom is a particularly great mentor-in-a-book for me. And as well I am familiar with Catherine de Hueck Doherty - and recently experienced a connexion, indirectly, with someone here in Australia who was directly influenced by her and Madonna House and who began an ongoing work in Australia.Brigidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07862531789968068093noreply@blogger.com