| Seasons of Your Heart: Prayers and Reflections, Revised and Expanded Revised, Expand Edition Contributor(s): Wiederkehr, Macrina (Author) |
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ISBN: 0060693002 ISBN-13: 9780060693008 Publisher: HarperOne OUR PRICE: $12.59 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1991 Annotation: In this masterpiece of simplicity, Macrina Wiederkehr offers a series of meditations to bring us closer to a "God for all seasons," revised and expanded into this new edition. Designed for daily use as well as for retreats, "Seasons of Your Heart" is an eloquent and lyrical invitation to journey through the spiritual seasons of wonder, hope, love, mystery, and faith. Macrina Weiderkehr shares her "seasonal struggle with God" and encourages us to reconize those same peaks and valleys in our own spiritual life. Using biblical passages, poetry, and excerpts from her journal, Wiederkehr provides meditative ideas and prayers as "postures" for realizing and approaching the holy in our daily lives. These reflections and prayers, then, have grown out of a daily listening to God in the changing seasons of my spiritual life, "writes the author. "These reflections have grown out of my conviction that our God is not some Almighty Being beyond us, but a Mystery within." |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Devotional - Religion | Inspirational |
| Dewey: 242 |
| LCCN: 90055776 |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 5.32" W x 8.06" (0.44 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Theometrics - Catholic - Theometrics - Mainline - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this masterpiece of simplicity, Macrina Wiederkehr offers a series of meditations to bring us closer to a God for all seasons, revised and expanded into this new edition. Designed for daily use as well as for retreats, Seasons of Your Heart is an eloquent and lyrical invitation to journey through the spiritual seasons of wonder, hope, love, mystery, and faith. Macrina Weiderkehr shares her seasonal struggle with God and encourages us to reconize those same peaks and valleys in our own spiritual life. Using biblical passages, poetry, and excerpts from her journal, Wiederkehr provides meditative ideas and prayers as postures for realizing and approaching the holy in our daily lives. These reflections and prayers, then, have grown out of a daily listening to God in the changing seasons of my spiritual life, writes the author. These reflections have grown out of my conviction that our God is not some Almighty Being beyond us, but a Mystery within. |
Contributor Bio(s): Wiederkehr, Macrina: - Macrina Wiederkehr, O.S.B., is a member of St. Scholastica Monastery in Fort Smith, AR. She directs retreats and workshops throughout the United States and is the author of A Tree Full of Angels and Seasons of Your Heart. |