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    Whispers of Presence
    Whispers of Presence
    Whispers of Presence
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    Whispers of Presence

    By Christine A Mallouhi

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    This book of readings are thresholds to foster prayer and awareness that opens to the Presence of God in a fractured day. It begins with an introduction of the authors journey through East and West in times of turmoil to discover a practice of contemplative awareness in daily life. These modern and ancient prayers, poems and wisdom sayings, dips into the Celts love of nature, the Monastics’ daily rhythms, along with a sprinkling of Sufi love sayings. They encourage the reader to cross bridges of suspicion between Protestant and Catholic, evangelical and sacramental, Muslim and Christian. The central theme of shared love and longing for God brings healing to disparate communities in a frenetic world and can change how we live. The world has suddenly been brought to a standstill in the midst of turmoil and loss. People are stopping and reflecting on life, their inner self and looking for comfort and strength in God. Here is a book to companion us in this chaos released just at the right time by someone who has been on that journey in remarkable circumstances. It is a book to help us carve deliberate rhythms of quiet prayer stops in a busy day to find the comfort and Presence of God. We have all suddenly been given all the time want to put this into practice. A book to cherish on quiet days, planned or proscribed.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChristine A Mallouhi
    Release dateApr 15, 2020
    ISBN9780463065198
    Whispers of Presence
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    Christine A Mallouhi

    Christine Mallouhi grew up in Australia and lived in the Middle East and North Africa for over thirty years after marriage to the Syrian author Mazhar Mallouhi. They co-founded www. al-kalima.com a group of Christians and Muslims working with scholars, artists and religious leaders to make the Bible and other important texts of faith and spirituality accessible and relevant to Arabic speakers seeking to bring reconciliation to the two communities. Alkalima produced the ground-breaking new translation of the Arabic Bible, THE TRUE MEANING OF THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST. Christine was a contributing editor for TUNISIAN NEWS and has written numerous articles and spoken on Muslim Christian relations worldwide.Aljazeera's series Friends of the Arabs featured Christine for her books WAGING PEACE ON ISLAM and MINISKIRTS MOTHERS AND MUSLIMS. Her writing on behalf of the Palestinian people brought recognition from President and Mrs Arafat. She currently lives in Melbourne where she founded and leads a Benedictine lay group Galahkookemu and is a Lay Minister in the Anglican church. She is internationally known for forging bridges between communities, Christian-Muslim, evangelical-sacramental. Her books are translated into five languages. Her latest book WHISPERS OF PRESENCE born out of the inner journey bridges evangelical passion with sacramental awareness with appreciation of Muslim Sufi love of God.

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      Whispers of Presence - Christine A Mallouhi

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      Christine Mallouhi draws on her rich experience of living in various human, cultural contexts – learning from their most wholesome expositors of truly, spiritual wakefulness – and mixes it with honest reflection on human woundedness and wistfulness to give us refreshing reflections for everyday living. Her quotation from Hafiz’s poem (hole in a flute) is now pasted to my instrument’s case to inspire me! Celtic, Ignatian, Benedictine and Sufi insights are brought to bear upon busy, practical, hungry (mostly Western) lives to offer solace, sustenance and, as the title promises Whispers of Presence.

      Bill Musk

      The Right Reverend Doctor Bill A. Musk author and retired Assistant Bishop for North Africa & Rector of St George’s Anglican Church, Tunis

      Every one of Christine Mallouhi’s published works has helped me befriend Muslims in grace and truth. Now, Whispers of Presence has enriched my times of prayer and simply being with God. These meditations and prayers – some hers, some from other saints – affirm the Psalmist’s declaration that the whole world is filled with His love. This authentic, personal and deep book has re-energized my quest to be with the Lord in all things at all times.

      Bill Christensen,

      International Ministries Pastor, Vineyard Columbus, Ohio, USA

      Whispers of Presence is a book that presents a series of daily reflections on spiritual aspects of life. Mallouhi describes some beautiful reflections from experiences of life that invite a deepening awareness of the presence of God in ordinary everyday events. She writes in a very evocative style that encourages us to enter the experiences with her. Her reflections are interwoven with poetry, wisdom statements and sacred texts from a wide range of spiritual writers. The stories are very engaging and point to some great spiritual practices that can be applied in a broad range of contexts. They arouse awareness of how a contemplative approach to life contributes to the development of everyday practices that form a deepening consciousness of the sacredness of life. I recommend this book as an aid to developing a personal daily contemplative rhythm in life.

      Rev Dr Peter Bentley

      Coordinator- Formation Studies

      WellSpring Centre. Melbourne

      Christine Mallouhi’s reflective writing is a glimpse of a divinely guided journey of grace. Through deliberate stillness and a desire to experience the intimacy of God’s presence in all of life, Christine creatively explores the ancient spiritual wisdom of the Celts, Sufis, Ignatius, Benedict and others, and a rhythm of meaningful joy in everyday life emerges as an invitation to carve out space for our own discoveries. From shepherds’ fields in the most remote areas of the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco, to walking the streets of Beirut, to celebrating the joyous laughter of the Australian Kookaburra, Christine is an inspiring spiritual guide.

      Paul-Gordon Chandler, peacemaker, art curator, Senior Anglican Rector of The Church of the Epiphany, Doha, Qatar and author of IN SEARCH OF A PROPHET: A Spiritual Journey with Kahlil Gibran and PILGRIMS OF CHRIST ON THE MUSLIM ROAD.

      I read every page of this and was so very moved. Not only do I whole heartedly recommend this, I have already given it to my wife to savor. We desperately need to return to quiet reflection before God.  The faster things move for us, the slower we need to get before God. What Christine does in this is to help us get still, get quiet, and reflect. There is something else I like about this a lot, I’m friends with people of many different faiths, this gives us some common thoughts from other faith leaders that allow us to have conversations. Most books make us smarter, few make us deeper people - this one does just that.

      Bob Roberts

      Rev. Bob Roberts, Founder of Global Faith Forum and NorthWood Church, Keller, Texas, USA.

      This book is a beautiful invitation to contemplation. It’s for busy people engaged in the daily activities and pressures of modern life. Contemplation meaning what? The author puts it simply: ‘gazing back at the One who is looking at us’; it means ‘living with God in this situation’. Most people cannot withdraw to do this – they have to find a way in the midst of daily busy-ness, in the midst of an addicted, anxious culture where 15 seconds is a very long time, where we are endlessly ‘bombarded by opinion that block us from seeing’, where we are, in T.S. Eliot’s words, ‘distracted from distraction by distraction.’

      The author thankfully spares us any ‘should’s’ or reproaches but instead shows simple, do-able, ordinary but profound ways to find – or create – moments of deliberate stillness, ‘rhythms of prayer stops’ or as a friend of mine puts it, ‘contemplative pauses’ that allow us to hear the ‘whispers’ of the God who is there. Such moments open the door – to what?

      The author is at the same time deeply open to the wisdom of other faiths. Contemplation for her is ‘not an utilitarian exercise’ to create peace of mind for its own sake. The stillness opens us up to God – in particular to Jesus as the image of God – and then also to the image of God in ourselves. She draws widely (but sparingly) on authors both classic and modern, from Jesus, Rumi, Benedict, Teresa etc. to Merton, Chittister, Keating and writers on Celtic spirituality. The Celtic sensitivity to God in the parables of nature and in the ordinariness of each day is a recurring theme.

      The book is designed for daily reading, one page at a time. I read it in one afternoon. I am not sorry I did – it led me to deep places. This author has suffered greatly. She gives a taste of what can come up in the stillness: intimations of death, warnings, failures, fears, doubts, emotional eruptions, powerful negative forces within ourselves. She

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