Prayers For People Who Say They Can't Pray
Almost everyone prays: believers, unbelievers, wanna-be believers and might-have-been believers. It assures us all in our many parts and many moods that everything is going to be okay, despite any evidence to the contrary. When people say “I don’t know how to pray,” what they often mean is “I don’t believe.” Or perhaps they are struggling with disappointment or anger with God and have taken a break from their prayer life. This book is written to remove these obstacles to prayer and to show how honest prayer doesn’t require belief or trust nor does it need constant satisfaction. This book introduces new ways of prayer and thinking about what prayer is--to offer the reader a new experience because sometimes our heart has a wisdom that our head does not. Whether you are someone who believes, hopes to believe, almost believes or simply trusts that offering a prayer means something, this book is for you.
Sometimes the time you most need to pray is when you are least able to—these are the prayers you offer.
Heartfelt, genuine prayers that don t sugar-coat faith or dismiss disbelief, but invite everyone to pray as they can or even as they can t.
Intelligent, invitational, humorous, real.
Written in Donna Schaper s signature style with prayers that are equally suitable for public prayer or for private silent contemplation.
Helps readers at any level of faith or doubt meet in the place of prayer which is hope and meeting.
Provides a language that is not institutional for those searching for a language for prayer.
Creates new communities of faith through inviting those who have slim faith or almost faith to join in.
Introduces new ways of prayer and thinking about what prayer is.
Offers new encounters with prayer.
Product Details
- Title : Prayers For People Who Say They Can't Pray
- Author: Schaper, Donna
- Publisher: Abingdon Press
- Publication Date: 2014
- ISBN: 9781426796043