The Trauma Code

Doug Smith

Discern Products

Living our lives in harmony with God’s wisdom flows from the practice of deep contemplative listening that matures over time and with experience. This wise, little book, Discernment: A Way of Life is the fruit of practical experience and thirty some years of spiritual direction ministry. It brings us the seasoned wisdom of centuries, especially from John of the Cross and Thomas Merton. Building upon the understanding that discernment is a charism of the Holy Spirit, it calls for a psychological awareness that is willing to explore the root causes of our surface problems. Thus Discernment: A Way of Life speaks to the practical needs and discernment issues of people today. This contemplative process of discernment speaks of four dispositions that prepare your heart for ‘knowing’ God’s will for your life. These four - solitary prayer, desire for the truth, an openness to outcome and a willingness to wait in patience – awaken interior stirrings facilitating the emergence of a spiritual direction. Like good spiritual gardeners working the soil into readiness, one finds oneself now more awakened and ready to frame a clear and specific question asking God for an answer, for clarity, for direction in a specific decision. There is a helpful chapter that describes the seven confirming signs that help us know in faith that we are being led by the Spirit of God. Discernment, A Way of Life offers a trustworthy guide to spiritual seekers, directors and those in leadership ministries. The ultimate goal is that discernment becomes a way of life. It can become a permanent attitude of listening to the interior voice of Spirit. So freeing, so liberating, so joyous!

Discernment: A Way Of Life

Religion & Spirituality

O'Toole CSJ (Editor), Rosemary

Christian Books & Bibles

The Spirituality of the Paschal Mystery

O'Toole, Rosemary

Christian college dean Drew McKinley mourns his dead wife and still wears his wedding ring. He stumbles on a desperate journey to understand God’s motives for her tragic death. Crossing his perilous path is Allison, a graduate student and new employee in the dean’s office. Even as she deals with financial hardships, she recognizes Drew’s unresolved grief from her own loss. Putting up a roadblock is Chris Whitney, the handsome but egotistical student senate president. He carries the secret burden of a dysfunctional family and a below-the-surface temper. The road Drew must navigate is fraught with career upheaval, a reawakening heart, substance and domestic abuse, a violent assault, and the struggle for forgiveness and restoration. Will Drew finish his journey to embrace the hope God offers, the love Allison shares, and the guidance Chris needs, or will he turn his back on all three with catastrophic consequences?

Embracing Hope

Butler Wojtowicz, Janell

<p>Many of life’s skills improve with practice and consistency. A mindful, repetitive practice, done well, reinforces positive outcomes. In hockey, basketball or music, the coach or mentor asks their students to go through a series of ‘exercises’ regularly to first of all acquire skill and proficiency so that they can improve the quality of their game or performance. As your spiritual directors, we encourage you with these guidelines for your journey, hoping that they will, over time, improve the depth and quality of your whole life. Without straining or trying too hard, these practices will help you become who YOU really are: a loving, compassionate person, living your life with ease and grace and making a difference in the world. We will be emphasizing the attitudes and dispositions of mind and heart as we explore the eight practices of a healthy, balanced spiritual life: Prayer Mindfulness of the Presence of God Spiritual Reading Self-Discipline Work Kindness and Compassion Leisure Spiritual Friends/Director/Community These eight practices will hopefully become the balanced daily rhythm for many spiritual seekers in families and communities today. If we understand the lavishness of God’s universal call to holiness, then we can more readily respond with generosity and gratitude. Be mindful that these eight practices evolve throughout the years until one moves ‘beyond the practice’ and they all seem to blend together and become one continuous flow of life and love that is simple, joyous and effortless.</p>

The 8-Fold Path of a Spiritual Life

<p>Some lives speak volumes Some are silent as the grave Dearly beloved — that’s what the obituaries say — never hinting at the conflict, shame or sin that lie behind the veil. In October 2012, Paul, the author’s 18-year-old son was killed by a hit-and-run driver while walking home from an evening performing with his punk rock band. Amid the grief of loss, she is burdened over his life that seemed to be headed in the wrong direction and their strained relationship. Dogged by grief, guilt, blame and shame, she relives every memory searching for that conclusive evidence that he did after all, belong to Christ. Clinging to the Biblical doctrines of grace, the truth she knows wrestles with the longing of her heart. Can she trust God, with even this?</p>

Pall of Silence: My Journey from Tragedy to Trust

Bertin, Eleanor

After being devastated by Idi Amin’s reign of terror, Uganda has been recovering under President Museveni. Schools and colleges founded by early missionaries once again produce pupils of promise. In spite of the AIDS epidemic, resilience, love and laughter abound. The missionary sisters of St Mary’s School on Kubiri Hill are run ragged when Ignatia, their star science pupil, is kidnapped together with explosive chemicals from the science labs. The statue of a Madonna and Child, beloved of their AIDS orphans, is also stolen three times by different thieves. The sisters set out on crazy hunts for Ignatia and the Madonna. Laugh and cry in Buganda County where schools for thieves abound and anything is possible.

A Missing Madonna

van Straten, Cicely

Words for Life Book One

Maxims of Perfection

O'Toole CSJ, Rosemary

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