Finding
God in the Verbs: Crafting a Fresh Language of Prayer
A Workshop and a Book
Do
you long for deeper communion with God? Spiritual director Jennie Isbell and
Quaker minister Brent Bill know how easy it is to lapse into repetitious
refrains of prayer:
"Our
hearts told us that we had lapsed into easy God speak. We weren't reaching deep
into our spirits and drawing out living words of praise, confession, concern,
intercession and longing. We were tired of speaking in clipped shorthand to
God. We wanted to pray in such a way that we showed up with our whole
selves."
If
you have experienced a similar longing, come join the authors on this prayer
journey into the deep waters of the Spirit. This book and workshop offer
companionship and guidance as you begin to notice, consider and deepen your
prayer experiences, with refreshing exercises sprinkled through every chapter
to offer you a fresh language for prayer. Find God here—in the nouns and the
verbs of your conversation.
Finding
God in the Verbs can be presented as a two or four hour introductory workshop
or a full weekend retreat. Either way, it's a lively opportunity to explore and
unpack the language of prayer, including inherited and ancestral prayers,
spontaneous prayers, and the unuttered prayers of your heart. In this highly experiential
workshop, participants play with scriptural and personal images for God and the
verbs (and other words) and implications that go with them. We dive into
language and the silence that yields to listening, all while leaving
theological baggage at the bag check.
J. Brent Bill is a Quaker
minister, photographer, retreat leader, and author. Among his books are Sacred Compass: The Way of Spiritual
Discernment, Awaken Your Senses (with Beth Booram), and Holy Silence. Brent lives on
Ploughshares Farm, which is fifty acres of Indiana farmland that is being
reclaimed for native hardwood forests and warm season prairie grasses.
How to contact Jennie
and Brent
Jennie Isbelllwww.jennieisbell.comljennieisbell@gmail.com
Brent Billlwww.brentbill.comlbrentbil@brentbill.comlholyordinary.blogspot.com
Jennie, Brent, and Finding God in
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