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Loading... Simply Pray: Modern Spritual Practice to Deepen Your Lifeby Erik Walker Wikstrom
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Wikstrom identifies and defines the four major types of prayer that are practiced by all the world’s major religions:
• "Naming" the many ways in which the holy is present in daily life and the wider world
• "Knowing" the self introspectively—both in its strengths and weaknesses
• "Listening" to the "voice of quiet stillness" that resides in each individual
• "Loving" by reaching out to the world
Simply Pray uses these four core prayer types to develop a modern worship practice, using prayer beads as a frame of reference. The book offers illustrated prayer-bead techniques that can be used directly or customized for personal use.
There are also helpful tips on how to make prayer a part of your daily routine, as well as how to to make prayer beads and the benefits of using them:
• Prayer beads serve as a focus for meditation. Much more than a mnemonic aid to prayer, prayer beads engage the senses to create a state of mindfulness.
• Prayer beads are mobile altars. Simply touching the beads as they rest in a pocket, briefcase, or purse brings a prayerful presence to mundane moments.
• Prayer beads serve as reminders of prayer and help keep track of prayers.
Simply Pray is for anyone who is seeking a modern prayer practice that is deeply rooted in world tradition.
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A good portion of Simply Pray is devoted to explaining prayer beads and Wikstrom's ideas on how to use them with the four kinds of prayer. Most books on prayer I've read assume that the reader believes in a personal God that he or she is directing the prayer to, but Wikstrom makes a point of also offering suggestions on how nontheistic readers might pray - one of the strengths of this book. At only 140 pages, this is a slender volume that gets to its point without much fuss, and I recommend it to anyone interested in exploring the practice of prayer. (