How can we become again like little children - with open hearts free of the numbness and guile that so infects us as adults - to become aware of God's continuing presence, filling our lives with beauty and meaning? This book points the way and shows us the path we must follow. The reader will soon discover that Christ is there at the beginning of our journey, accompanies us along the way - and is indeed the path itself - and waits for us with open arms at the end of our journey. Here is a book rich with insight into being able to see the extraordinary in the ordinary, the sacramental and therefore the relational nature of everyone and everything - and the consequences of this vision for how we ought to live our lives as believers. --Fr. Steven Tsichlis, St. Paul's Greek Orthodox Church, Irvine, CA.

Being Bread

Religion & Spirituality

Stephen Muse

Christian Books & Bibles

STM Press

This book is about the spirituality of personal encounter in and through Christ. Pastoral dialogue involves an integrated mindful personal presence and interested unknowing that engages the other with the same vulnerability and alertness that one brings to God in prayer. Inner discernment and ascetical struggle along with existential engagement with and for others in working for a just and humane world are equally important in response to God's love given for all. For an interview with the author on COEH TV at Columbus State University go to university vimeo.com/m/38325238

When Hearts Become Flame: An Eastern Approach to the Dia-Logos of Pastoral Counseling

Amim, what happened to your nose? Where are your mouth and ears? Where did your fingers and hair go? Amim is a strange and beautiful story with a universal message about the uniqueness of each human being, the hunger for love, and how painful is the fear of rejection. A refugee far from his country, among strangers, a child like any other, seeking acceptance and willing to pay any price for friendship until In his search for the OTHER he finally finds a way to be HIMSELF!

Be Yourself: Amim's Great Discovery

In the following pages, Fr. Stephen Muse provides us, not with a manual of prayer, but with an opening into the life of prayer by unveiling for us “the mystery of embodied life and the uncreated divine life.” He provides an entranceway for us, as human beings with all our brokenness, weakness and fear, to dialogue with the uncreated life and light of God through prayer. Everything in this wonderful book provides the reader with an opportunity to learn what it means to truly breathe prayer and invites us to begin and continue the journey of seeking to draw closer to our Lord Jesus Christ with every breath. His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon, Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada

Treasure in Earthen Vessels

Caregivers As Confessors &amp; Healers: Proceedings from the National Conference of the Orthodox Christian Association of Medicine, Psychology and Religion - by various contributors

Caregivers As Confessors & Healers: Proceedings from the National Conference of the Orthodox Christian Association of Medicine, Psychology and Religion

James Burg

Halina Woroncow

Eighth Day Institute

The Peddler and the Disenchanted Mirror is the story of a woman in search of her perfect image. One day at a dusty flea market she finds an unusual mirror, which she tries to purchase to add to her collection. Her struggle with the mirror, the peddler and herself changers her forever. Reader be cautioned. This is an enchanted book that once read, will not easily be forgotten.

The Peddler and the Disenchanted Mirror

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Succinct and highly practical, Beside Still Waters is devoted to solutions to the common obstacles of a successful and authentic pastoral ministry. The contributors use the 23rd Psalm to provide the context for discussion of a variety of the most critical pressure points that can disable a healthy ministry.The book culminates in a final chapter, which addresses the task of preaching as pastoral care, which is most genuine when it emerges out of a keen awareness of good boundaries that protect the spiritual life of both pastor and parish. An annotated list of further readings is given for each area of discussion.The authors have among themselves more than two hundred years of pastoral experience and have been on the front lines of the Pastoral Institute's national ministry to clergy in crisis. They include Greek Orthodox, Methodist, Presbyterian, Southern Baptist ministers and pastoral counselors. They draw on both pastoral and clinical experiences to address the common and frequently overlooked areas of difficulty in ministry.Contributors: Gloria Armstrong, Edwin Chase, James Johnson, Ron King, Stephen Muse, Barrett Smith and Jeffrey Wilson.

Beside Still Waters: Resources for Shepherds in the Market Place

Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Incorporated

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