Prayerfulness

Awakening to the Fullness of Life
Foreword by: Joyce Rupp
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Format: Hardcover

Publication date: September 1, 2009

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Blending insights from Christian contemplative practice and Buddhist mindfulness, Dr. Robert J. Wicks—well-known speaker, therapist, and spiritual guide—introduces what he calls “prayerfulness,” a way of being truly in the present to experience God and life in dynamic new ways. Wicks offers a rich array of insights including seven practical steps, a thirty-day retreat, and a Spiritual Mindfulness Questionnaire. This creative combination of ancient wisdom and contemporary psychology is designed to help readers develop a loving, clear, and spiritually balanced outlook.

Sample questions from the Spiritual Mindfulness Questionnaire:

  • In your own life, how do you approach the people you meet and the ordinary activities of each day so that they become sacred?
  • What preoccupies you in ways that seem to prevent you from seeing God?
  • Are you someone who listens to others, or do you find that much of the time you are simply hearing them out while waiting for your opportunity to speak?
  • What unfinished business from the past seems to continually intrude upon your present peace, and how do you address it in a prayerful way?
  • When and how do you regularly meditate?

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Pages: 192

Trim size: 5 x 7 inches

ISBN: 9781933495200

Imprint: Sorin Books

  • “Always insightful.”

    “Robert Wicks’s books are always insightful and inspiring. Prayerfulness provides people, especially pastoral leaders, with ways not only to pray but to live with a spirit of prayerfulness.”

    Most Rev. Gerald F. Kicanas
    Bishop of Tucson

  • “A triumph of the human spirit!”

    “In the face of anguish and distraction, so common in our society, Wicks presents a straightforward guide to deepening faith through compassion and love. A triumph of the human spirit!”

    Kerry Kennedy
    Author of Being Catholic Now

  • “Unfailing honesty.”

    “What makes Prayerfulness stand out is Robert Wicks's unfailing honesty and his ability to unite our everyday life to our relationship with the divine.”

    From the foreword by Joyce Rupp
    Author of Open the Door

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