PRAYER.  OUR DEEPEST LONGING.
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JUST WHAT I NEEDED TO HEAR.  SO GRATEFUL.  I WILL READ IT OVER AND OVER.  WILL READ MORE FROM RON ROLHEISER.
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This book brings home the importance of Prayer in our lives in
a very personal way.
Through the Author's personal stories, he shares his experiences
and how we can apply what he has learned to our situations.
I would put this book as a "Must Read" for all people that don't
seem to be able to find time to Pray and are unsatisfied with their
"Prayer Lives"
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A lovely book with prayers of all kinds.  From prayers that can ease pain away to prayers that celebrate our joy.  Ms. Gardner has a way with words that express our everyday feelings in a very special way.
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Embrace the cross.  We all need Jesus Christ as our personal saviour.
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Very down-to-earth look at prayer --its purposes, its challenges and its ability to change us and our expectations of God. Not a "name it claim" approach, but still a bolder approach to prayer than most of us are willing to take.
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It is a movie and book (I read the book and saw the movie at my church) that is so true in life.  I think we tend to live our lives and forget about prayer.  With prayer if we only prayed more often or started to incorporate it in our every day routine, we would find  there are  many blessings to be had and it is the ultimate communication we have with our savior, Jesus Christ. It gives us His peace not the peace that we feel we are getting from worldly stuff!!!
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We should be an open source to God's love for everyone unconditionally and this song is that prayer asking God to help us.
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This book is simply profound. It gives such insight to the meaning of this prayer, that I will never pray it the same way again. Kingdom of God come!! Will of God be done on earth as it is in Heaven!
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Now this is an amazing book.  I am astounded at how far we have strayed in our prayer lives.  This book makes me hunger for more of God and to have a relationship with him I never dreamed possible.
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Inspiring and troubling story. Should make us in America  pray for fellow  Christians around the world and for the laziness  of all of us as Christians in our country.
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This is a very true and blessed book. Pick up and it leads one to the Lord. Enter into prayer and thanksgiving and healing. God's Love.
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A few minutes a day to a transformation of your prayer life where you can discover a deeper intimacy with God.  A few minutes a day that will enrich your spiritual journey.  A few minutes a day to be immersed in the Love and Peace of God.
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One reviewer of this book, William Muehl of Yale Divinity School, calls this "An embarrassingly beautiful collection of prayers." Some of the prayers are just that. Others are just plain embarrassing.

Intense feeling suffuses -- permeates -- *saturates* the book. I appreciate deep sensitivity in prayers when poetically rendered: lean in expression, suggestively rendered. I sometimes get the feeling in wading into Loder's waters that I am about to drown in his painfully self-conscious introspection and angst. He is prone to wax pop-theological in a 1970ish, "me-me-me" way.

Guide Me Into An Unclenched Moment, Calm Me Into a Quietness, & other mystically-bent prayers of hearing & listening, quieting & receiving are among his best.
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The writing was so simple but so profound. Reading this book was like a meditation, a prayer. I felt that I was being led into the depths of my heart, and there I found the heart of God.
Highly and strongly recommended for anyone struggling with deep prayer, and seeking a sincere and close relationship with God.
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In John 17:3 One reads: And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. Despite this seeming injunction to KNOW God, many would push Him away into such a far place in their attempt to glorify His image that He becomes neither possible to know nor even remotely interested in us, either as a group or as individuals. In this little gem Terryl and Fiona Givens remind us that it is possible for us as children of God to know our Father and to be about His business, the business of finding eternal life which actually began in the far distant past. We continue that quest in this vale of tears separated from the only true source of happiness. They remind us that we see through a glass darkly at first, but that we can come to know even as we are known and that it is not just an idle statement, that we can know God. It does not lessen His greatness or glory, but rather adds to it. They poignantly remind us that we can be "joint heirs with Christ if it so be that we suffer with him that we may be glorified together."

With erudition and sensitivity they take us on a journey through scripture and literary comment that helps us to be aware of what we knew and what we can know regarding this most important of all truth. The beauty of their work is in its validity and in realizing that the truly great thinkers of all time knew the source of their wisdom and what gave them utterance. When scholars would give us a picture of deity that is so far removed from anything understandable nor even possible to love the Givens remind us of our relationship to this God we worship and His divine Son, a relationship that not only allows, but begs for our understanding. This does not lower nor degrade the glory of God, but enhances His greatness when we truly realize the vastness of His love. The God we worship not only feels all we feel and by similar processes, wills us to feel all He feels. The spectrum of affection, presently limited in us is filled out completely in Him, not because He is less personal than we, but because He is more. That this should be a threat to one's understanding or the scholars as they explain God to us only evidences that fact that the god they explain is not the God who would have us know and love Him. This God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob was their friend and He can be "known even as we are known."

This is one book (I read it on my Kindle) which as I followed my course through it, I actually regretted seeing my coming to its end. I wanted more, not because they did not cover the subject, but because of the way I felt as I read its pages and marveled at its content. It rang true to my soul which rejoiced in its message. Why, this was and is the essence of the entire struggle. We are strangers in a strange land, sojourners separated from our kind as we follow the admonition of Paul to the Philippians: Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. It is with fear and trembling we often approach this subject, but the Givens remind us that we are approaching a loving parent. This should and will bring joy.

In times of extreme, trouble or joy, this message will bring great happiness and it is a book to be read when searching for answers or longing for joy. If you really want food for the soul and a richness of understanding of what we may really be about, pick up this book. You will not be able to put it down. My only regret is that I read it so fast, since I could NOT put it down. I am going to read it again and probably again. As life has its ups and downs this gem will remind us of the glory that is in each one of us and ALL of God's children, everyone who walks this earth. We all share that divine spark.
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Wonderful book! Such and encouragement, as a Christian,  to understand that this yearning is ment for something. We are heaven bound, we are strangers just passing through.
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There are those people in the world who live a life of prayer and are keenly aware of those events in their life that are signals of God's prompting them to pray for a certain thing. This is a story of one such Prayer Warrior who immediately senses that a dream she experiences is God way of prompting her to pray for that unknown person who is the main character in her dream. It is a story of her family and their struggle to create a good life. This story has every element in it that I love . It is very well written and combines a sense of intrigue with reality in such a way that made me feel like this was a true story. There are many interesting characters in the story that most people will immediately identify with. I believe that prayer warriors affect the lives of the people they pray for by interceding to God for them. I hope that some people who do not believe in God or the power of prayer would read this story out of curiosity and learn of a different way of approaching life. The world is in constant need of more prayer warriors. Anyone who understand that each and every person has their own DNA knows that there indeed is a God. We are not an accident. God wants us to communicate to him and absolutely will respond.