Psalms for Praying: An Invitation to Wholeness

Every commentary on the Book of Psalms has had to face the issue that many of these prayers commemorate and celebrate: wrath and vengeance. What is needed is not ingenious exegitial rationalization of ancient texts, but the kind of transformation into a work of piety and art that Nan Merrill provides.

Religion & Spirituality

Merrill, Nan C.

Christian Books & Bibles

Chiron Pubns

Every commentary on the Book of Psalms has had to face the issue that many of these prayers commemorate and celebrate wrath and vengeance. What is needed is not ingenious exegetical rationalization of ancient texts, but the kind of transformation into a work of piety and art that is provided here.Addressed are the needs of a world seeking to counter individual and societal injustices by a global peace born of personal peace through prayer and practice. In short, here is the Book of Psalms recast in the light of the continuing revelation and evolution of the authentic religious spirit of the scriptures.

Continuum Intl Pub Group

The loneliness and feast of separation along with the hope, joy and great peace experienced as we come to know God - by whatever name - with and within us is the paradox reflected in this work. Each meditation and mandala is an invitation to reflect prayerfully on one's own life, according to the author. She hopes that others will be inspired to to create their own meditations and mandalas as a way in and through prayer.

Meditations and Mandalas: Simple Songs for the Spiritual Life

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Alternative Medicine

Continuum

Daily meditations from the author of the best-selling Psalms for Praying.The hand-crafted mandalas on facing pages represent the fruits of the author's own centering prayer, and are offered as another dimension to meditation to be reflected upon with the heart's eye rather than analyzed by the mind.

Worship & Devotion

This inspiring book contains admonitions, challenges, and encouragements for the reader to move up another step on the spiritual ladder. In short, these are spiritual self-help exercises for personal improvement.The gentle hints and suggestions come in the form of meditations and brief contemplative insights, which will help the hesitant inquirer who is making the first gestures towards inner contentment.

Lumen Christi . . . Holy Wisdom: Journey to Awakening

The Journey to Jerusalem is literal, metaphoric, and archetypal. It is a believing and a discovering of Jesus' story as one's own, a process of internalizing various roads (and Roads) described in the New Testament. These are all paths to personal enlightenment, what Nan describes as a reaching to LoveConsciousness."The Road to Damascus" (Saul/Paul) involves the breaking down of the ego to receive Grace.
"Preparation" is autobiographical in nature, a gaze within to understand who each of us is.
"The Roads into and through the Wilderness" are studies of the self through the works of John the Baptist and then Jesus in the wilderness. As Jesus was tempted by Satan, we must understand what really ought to motivate, how to put temptation behind us.
"The Road to Jericho" is an awakening to what a good neighbor is by looking at the Parable of the Good Samaritan, and how we might act accordingly.
The final "Road to Jerusalem" leads to pain and the cross, but is also the road to communion with all of Creation.

Journey into Love: From Fear to Freedom

Bloomsbury Academic

Bloomsbury Continuum

Walking with Wisdom is a stunning sequence of twenty meditations for our time. Inspired by the Apocryphal Book of Wisdom, traditionally attributed to Solomon, Nan Merrill shows us that Wisdom is a treasured gift for all generations. Divine Sophia invites us to participate with her, through her tender guidance, in an existence that transcends death. The unseen Realm of Love is our true life, and Merrill―author of Psalms for Praying, the Psalms recast and spiritually reinterpreted for our times―takes us on a breathtaking journey into Love Consciousness. In today's violence-torn world and in our fragmented everyday lives, Wisdom is needed as never before, though She is more often dismissed or ignored. Times of silence, solitude, simplicity, and stillness are paramount as our souls yearn for a union with Wisdom and the Beloved. When we seek this Wisdom of the Heart, we leave behind false emotions of guilt and fear, and we enter the Infinite Reality that exists beyond all time.

Walking with Wisdom

Self-Help

Personal Transformation

Lantern Publishing & Media

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Psalms for Praying: An Invitation to Wholeness

Psalms for Praying: An Invitation to Wholeness

Meditations and Mandalas: Simple Songs for the Spiritual Life

Psalms for Praying: An Invitation to Wholeness

Meditations and Mandalas: Simple Songs for the Spiritual Life

Lumen Christi . . . Holy Wisdom: Journey to Awakening

Journey into Love: From Fear to Freedom

Psalms for Praying: An Invitation to Wholeness

Psalms for Praying: An Invitation to Wholeness

Walking with Wisdom