Journaling as a Spiritual Practice
eBook - ePub

Journaling as a Spiritual Practice

Encountering God Through Attentive Writing

  1. 166 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Journaling as a Spiritual Practice

Encountering God Through Attentive Writing

About this book

Whether you are a longtime journal keeper or someone who has never kept a journal at all, this book will help you go below the surface of your life with God. It is not about the art of writing, but about how journaling can form us spiritually. Every chapter combines descriptive text, illustrations from journals and the author's own experience with journaling practices integrated along the way to help you bring your own life and world into sharper focus.

God wants to surprise you withthe beauty of your own life, growing and alive, filled with movement, light and shadow. This is the book to do just that.

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Information

Publisher
IVP
Year
2015
eBook ISBN
9780830893928
Print ISBN
9780830835195

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. Introduction
  5. 1. Starting Out: Discovering a Journaling Practice
  6. 2. Beginning . . . Again: Staying in My True Calling
  7. 3. Looking Intently: Paying Attention to My Life
  8. 4. Claiming Significance: Honoring My Own Story
  9. 5. Naming the Landscape: Mining Below the Surface
  10. 6. Listening Beyond Words: Blessing the Body
  11. 7. Looking Backward: Reflecting on the Past
  12. 8. Looking Forward: Where Does This Lead?
  13. 9. Reorienting in the Present: Where Am I Now?
  14. 10. Talking Back: Dialogue Journaling
  15. 11. Embracing the Cross: Finding My Way Through Suffering
  16. 12. Discovering Life: Writing for Healing
  17. 13. Seeing the Holy in the Ordinary: Noticing God in the Everyday
  18. 14. Facing Resistance: Finding the Pathway Home
  19. Appendix: Listening Guidelines for a Journaling Group
  20. Notes
  21. Formatio Page
  22. Praise for Journaling as a Spiritual Practice
  23. About the Author
  24. More Titles from InterVarsity Press
  25. Copyright