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Sunday Morning Worship Sharing
An Invitation to Reimagine your Spiritual Practices
I've just finished reading a very inspiring devotional book "An Altar in the World" by Barbara Brown Taylor. It's the kind of book that stopped me in my tracks as I read, wanting to highlight so much of it. I'd love to share the experience of reading it with others, perhaps reading one a chapter a week and sharing how it spoke to us.
Some testimonials about it "This book is the most practical but everyday mystical book I have read on spiritual practices." "In Barbara Brown Taylor's hands, the old division between heaven and earth is healed and both come alive. Your mind, your body, and your soul will be well fed by this wonderful book".
Here's a little from her Introduction: "When I hear people talk about spirituality... they know there is more to life than what meets the eye. They have drawn close to this "More" in nature, in love, in art, in grief. They would be happy for someone to teach them how to spend more time in the presence of this deeper reality, but when they visit the places where such knowledge is supposed to be found, they often find the rituals hollow and the language antique. Even religious people are vulnerable to this longing... They too can harbor the sense that there is more to life than they are being shown. Where is the secret hidden? Who has the key to the treasure box of More? People seem willing to look all over the place for this treasure ...but the last place most people look is right under their feet, in the everyday activities, accidents, and encounters of their lives. What possible spiritual significance could a trip to the grocery store have? How could something as common as a toothache be a door to greater life?"
If you find this spiritually inviting and would like to dig deeper into her twelve spiritual practices in small group sharing format, please let me know and we'll order books. I'd love to do this on 1st and 3rd Sundays at 9AM if that works for others.
Blessings,
Ruth
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