Finding God in the Verbs: Crafting a Fresh Language of Prayer

Do you long for deeper communion with God? Spiritual director Jennie Isbell and Quaker minister Brent Bill know how easy it is to lapse into repetitious refrains of prayer: "Our hearts told us that we had lapsed into easy God speak. We weren't reaching deep into our spirits and drawing out living words of praise, confession, concern, intercession and longing. We were tired of speaking in clipped shorthand to God. We wanted to pray in such a way that we showed up with our whole selves." If you have experienced a similar longing, come join the authors on this prayer journey into the deep waters of the Spirit. This book offers companionship and guidance as you begin to notice, consider and deepen your prayer experiences, with refreshing exercises sprinkled through every chapter to offer you a fresh language for prayer. Find God here―in the nouns and the verbs of your conversation.

Jennifer Leigh Isbell is an experienced spiritual director with an MDiv from the Earlham School of Religion. She is the author of Leading Quakers, an eight-part curriculum for training worship communities. She and her husband live in Deerfield, Massachusetts.

Brent Bill is a writer, retreat leader and Quaker minister. His books include Sacred Compass, Holy Silence and Awaken Your Senses. Bill lives with his wife on Ploughshares Farm in Indiana.