Creating a Life with God: The Call of Ancient Prayer Practices - Softcover

Wolpert, Daniel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0835898555 ISBN 13: 9780835898553

Publisher: Upper Room Books, 2003

Synopsis

"This book is truly about life with God: a life in which the awareness and consciousness of God sweep us off our feet the way a lover would. It is about taking on the mind of Christ, a process that is a journey, the journey of prayer."

So begins Wolpert's invitation to fully experience the lifeline God offers us in prayer.

Creating a Life with God goes beyond the rote prayers that so many of us have experienced and found wanting. In fact, Wolpert admits that his own frustration with the formula prayers and his unsettled longing immediately after college led to his search for a different kind of prayer, one that's "a deep conversation with God beginning with communion and leading to transformation."

Prayer illuminates our minds, enabling the love of God to permeate all that we do. The purpose of this book is to nourish a deeper, more satisfying prayer life. Wolpert explains 12 prayer practices and introduces you to historical figures who best illuminate each practice. You'll discover new ways to pray through

• experiencing solitude and silence


• using your mind and imagination


• using your body and creativity


• connecting with nature and community

You'll discover how classical approaches to God can deepen your prayer life today. An appendix offers step-by-step instructions for practicing the Jesus Prayer and the prayer of examen, for walking the labyrinth, and more.

Creating a Life with God is suitable for both individual and small group study.

About this title

About the Author

Daniel Wolpert worked as a research scientist, psychologist, spiritual director, farmer, teacher, and construction worker before earning his Masters of Divinity degree at San Francisco Theological Seminary (SFTS).  Over the past nearly thirty years he has taught in the fields of psychology and spiritual formation, led retreats, and delivered talks in such settings as the Art of Spiritual Direction Program at SFTS, the Youth Ministry and Spirituality Project, national ministry conferences, UCLA, UND medical school, Luther Seminary, the 5-Day Academy for Spiritual Formation and numerous churches, camps, and other ministry settings.  Recently he has also worked as a church pastor while continuing his spiritual direction work in private practice and through the Penny George Institute for Health and Healing.  Daniel is the co-founder and director of the Minnesota Institute of Contemplation and Healing (MICAH, micahprays.org).  He is also the author of "Leading a Life with God, the practice of spiritual leadership (Upper Room 2006),  "Creating a Life with God: the call of ancient prayer practices"(Upper Room 2003), co-author of "Meeting God in Virtual Reality: using spiritual practices with media" (Abingdon 2004), and most recently "The Collapse of the Three Story Universe: Christianity in an Age of Science" (MICAH 2013). 

Edition details

• Publisher: Upper Room Books
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0835898555
• ISBN 13: 9780835898553
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192