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    Prayer Spa: Ancient Treatments for the Modern Soul
    Prayer Spa: Ancient Treatments for the Modern Soul
    Prayer Spa: Ancient Treatments for the Modern Soul
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    Prayer Spa: Ancient Treatments for the Modern Soul

    By Jennifer Anna Rich

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    “Take a break, breathe in beauty, and bathe in the grace of the soul food you will find on these pages.” —Danielle Bean, Brand Manager, www.catholicmom.com

    While many Christians like the idea of prayer, the act of spending time alone with God keeps eluding them, as the pressing tasks of the day push ahead in line. Prayer Spa offers gentle instruction in honoring mind, body and soul for a few minutes each day. With a little bit of practice, it is possible to form new habits of expanding neural pathways, relaxing tight muscles, and nourishing the interior self through prayer.

    Enticing the five senses in one’s own curated space— seeing, smelling, tasting, hearing, and touching the gifts of this created world gathered into a prayer corner, and wrapping beauty and holiness into each enjoyable session—the soul begins to crave this time of quiet connection with the One who loves best.

    The Prayer Spa is always open ... drop-ins welcome! Anyone who senses the shallowness of a life lived apart from God will find therapy here. Prayer Spa offers many hands-on approaches to contemplative prayer for the person who seeks intimacy with God, including the beauty in preparation, sources for poetic spoken prayers, prayers of stillness, prayers of the hours, and a radically simple way to pray without ceasing, all gifted to us by the early Christians.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherParaclete Press
    Release dateApr 1, 2018
    ISBN9781640603226
    Prayer Spa: Ancient Treatments for the Modern Soul
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    Jennifer Anna Rich

    Jennifer Anna Rich finds pleasure in stillness, as an antidote to her many demands as a letterpress printer, book artist, business owner, farmer, wife and mom in Portland, Oregon. Co-founder of Oblation Papers & Press, she has spent nearly three decades offering handmade paper goods to help connect people with each other around the globe. With a master’s degree in Christianity and the Arts from Evangelical Regent College, she loves the beauty and the holiness of the Orthodox Church, and making small steps to grow in her life of prayer.

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      Prayer Spa - Jennifer Anna Rich

      prayer

      spa

      prayer is intimacy with God and contemplation of the invisible

      —saint gregory of nyssa

      2019 First Printing

      Prayer Spa: Ancient Treatments for the Modern Soul

      Copyright © 2019 Jennifer Anna Rich

      ISBN 978-1-64060-182-6

      The texts on pages 90–95 (Psalm 51) are copyright © Holy Transfiguration Monastery, Brookline, Massachusetts, used by permission. All rights reserved.

      Scripture quotations are from the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, (RSV) copyright © 1946, 1952, and 1971 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

      Psalms for Praying the Hours are taken from the King James Version of the Bible (KJV). KING JAMES VERSION, public domain.

      The Paraclete Press name and logo (dove on cross) are trademarks of Paraclete Press, Inc.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Rich, Jennifer Anna, 1962- author.

      Title: Prayer spa : ancient treatments for the modern soul / Jennifer Anna Rich.

      Description: Brewster, MA : Paraclete Press, Inc., 2019.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2018045605 | ISBN 9781640601826 (trade paper)

      Subjects: LCSH: Prayer—Christianity.

      Classification: LCC BV215 .R53 2019 | DDC 248.3/2—dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018045605

      10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

      All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in an electronic retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other—except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher.

      Published by Paraclete Press

      Brewster, Massachusetts

      www.paracletepress.com

      Printed in the United States of America

      contents

      introduction

      one

      mind … body … soul

      expand your mind, supple your body, nourish your soul

      two

      the five senses

      celebrate the sensory beauty of holiness

      three

      your prayer plan

      honor this appointment, lift your face toward God

      four

      inner stillness

      dwell in your deep heart

      five

      an offering

      offer the world back as sacrament

      six

      the hours

      transform time into prayer

      seven

      tools for therapy

      wrap wisdom from the ages into each day

      supplement 1

      prayer cards for daily plan

      supplement 2

      scriptures to pray, to memorize

      supplement 3

      sources for growth

      glossary

      about the author

      acknowledgments

      introduction

      true inner prayer is to stop talking and to listen to the wordless voice of God within our heart.

      —metropolitan kallistos of diokleia

      do you yearn for the beauty of prayer each morning?

      do you believe that God made you to desire intimacy with Him?

      do you wish to offer care to your own soul?

      prayer spa is an invitation to the modern person

      to nourish their mind, body, and soul

      through contemplative prayer.

      the wisdom of the prayer spa is nothing new.

      these prayers are essential

      a gift from the early church

      largely forgotten in this modern world.

      mind … expand your mind

      with intention, attentiveness, and memorized prayer.

      body … supple your body

      through movement, stretching, and embodied prayer.

      soul … nourish your soul

      by dwelling with God in stillness and focused prayer.

      breathe deeply of this prayerful way of holiness

      this gentle instruction for each day’s offering.

      encounter the presence of God as an interior experience

      as you allow Christ to pierce your heart with pure love

      in ever-deepening layers of prayer.

      one

      mind … body … soul

      expand your mind, supple your body, nourish your soul

      the christian is like someone who lives in three dimensions in a world in which the majority of people live in two.

      —metropolitan anthony bloom

      you are a gifted

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