Prayer: Finding the Heart's True Home
by Richard J. Foster
Twenty-one kinds of prayer (simple, of the forsaken, examen, tears, relinquishment, formation, covenant, adoration, rest, sacramental, unceasing, of the heart, meditative, contemplative, ordinary, petitionary, intercessory, healing, suffering, authoritative, radical) in three movements. Encyclopaedic and warm.
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you want to know how many ways there are to pray.
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Three things you will actually use
- Start where you are; simple prayer is real prayer.
- Inward, upward, outward.
- There is no wrong way to begin.
Do this first
Read 'Simple Prayer' first; it is permission for all the rest.
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Twenty-one kinds of prayer.
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