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- English
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About this book
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"Come away and rest awhile."
Jesus invites us to be with him, offering our full and undivided attention to him. When we choose retreat, we make a generous investment in our friendship with Christ. We are not always generous with ourselves where God is concerned. Many of us have tried to incorporate regular times of solitude and silence into the rhythm of our ordinary lives, which may mean that we give God twenty minutes here and half an hour there. And there's no question we are better for it! But we need more. Indeed, we long for more.
In these pages Transforming Center founder and seasoned spiritual director Ruth Haley Barton gently leads us into retreat as a key practice that opens us to God. Based on her own practice and her experience leading hundreds of retreats for others, she will guide you in a very personal exploration of seven specific invitations contained within the general invitation to retreat. You will discover how to say yes to God's winsome invitation to greater freedom and surrender.
There has never been a time when the invitation to retreat is so radical and so relevant, so needed and so welcome. It is not a luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual life.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- Introduction Invitation to Retreat
- One Strategic Withdrawal
- Two Just Flop Down
- Three The Sources of Our Exhaustion
- Four Finding Your Rhythm on Retreat
- Five Sweet Hours of Prayer
- Six Letting Go of Your Grip
- Seven Relinquishing False-Self Patterns
- Eight Space for Discernment
- Nine Invitation to Recalibrate
- Ten Finding Spiritual Freedom
- Eleven Remember the Signs
- Twelve In Returning and Rest You Shall Be Saved
- Gratitudes
- Appendix 1 Fixed-Hour Prayer
- Appendix 2 Planning Your Retreat
- Notes
- Transforming Resources
- Praise forĀ Invitation toĀ Retreat
- About theĀ Author
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