Readers of the first edition (published in 2001) were enthusiastic
in their praise, calling it a brave and useful book. Prayer groups
and church congregations in around the U.S. have used it for study,
and it has been translated into Dutch, German and French.The
message of the book is more relevant now than it was 10 years ago.
The world has changed radically since 2001. As more people
worldwide candidly admit to their reliance on prayer, the number of
books on the subject has dramatically increased each year. War,
economic instability, environmental and weather-related
disasters--many factors draw us inward or back to our churches. In
prayer groups and retreats of all kinds we are looking for comfort
and consolation, for spiritual direction, or for answers to the
eternal questions that have always challenged humanity.Praying
Dangerously instructs us that we can grow up spiritually, leaving
behind a childish relationship to prayer as a superstitious ritual
or mere plea for favors. It encourages readers to recognize the
difference between prayer that asks only for reassurance, and
prayer that asks for God and stands for transformation. The author
invites us to assume greater responsibility for our inner lives by
choosing the "not-knowing," the insecurity, the difficult
circumstances as potential blessings and means of purification and
inspiration. We can cease being "victims" of God's Will, while at
the same time embracing genuine surrender and reliance on the
irrefutable power of love. This 10th anniversary edition is fully
revised, with several completely new chapters including: "The High
Cost of Forgiveness"--a subject that challenges everyone, and
"Praying on the Subway," about how our travels and other activities
in public places can provide us with a constant impetus for
blessing others. Praying Dangerously draws from many sources and
many traditions, from the Orthodox Christian classic The
Philokalia, to the writings of ancient Sufi saints Rabi'a, Rumi and
Abil-Kheir to contemporary treatments of prayer by Thomas Merton,
Thomas Keating and others. Topics include: the prayer of
transformation; building a life of prayer; lessons in prayer from
people who prayed "dangerously," and the use of prayer-writing as a
means of building and nourishing the inner life. This dynamic
approach expands the possibilities of prayer, invites a renewal of
the inner life, and inspires us to abandon superficial, safe
notions of prayer in favor of the Real.
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