The Path of Prayer: Reflections on Prayer and True Stories of How It Affects Our Lives - Hardcover

Burnham, Sophy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670894648 ISBN 13: 9780670894642

Publisher: Viking Adult, 2002

Synopsis

The author of the best-selling A Book of Angels interweaves her personal experiences with true-life stories to reveal the meaning of prayer in our lives, examine its practice, and show the benefits of prayer to physical, psychological, emotional, and spiritual health. 22,500 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Sophy Burnham, an award-winning author best known for her classic bestselling work, A Book of Angels, is currently completing a two-year course in spiritual direction at the Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation. A prolific speaker and writer on angels, faith, and the spiritual path, her work has been translated into twenty languages.

From Publishers Weekly:

In this fervent but unfocused primer, prayer is more therapeutic protocol than divine commandment. Drawing on the writings of sages, unconventional (and some might say dubious) scientific studies and many true-life parables of supplications miraculously answered, Burnham (A Book of Angels) reassures us that all prayers great (cure this cancer) and small (untie this necklace) go straight to God's ears. Nominally a Christian, Burnham has a broadly ecumenical but unspecific idea of God-a.k.a. "Creative Element," "force of the universe" and "tachyon energy"-and her concept of prayer is similarly unstructured and abstract. Prayer can be the familiar hands-clasped entreaty (for which she provides tips on posture and warm-up breathing exercises), but it can be virtually any other act-listening to music, drinking coffee, washing the dishes-done with a pure heart. Prayer taps into the mystical healing power of a cosmos that is raptly attentive to our needs, but demands little from us except emotional sincerity. Devotees of Burnham's free-form New Age spirituality will like this approach, but religious traditionalists who think that specific beliefs and rituals are important to God may not.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Adult
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0670894648
• ISBN 13: 9780670894642
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 250