![The Prayer Wheel: A Daily Guide to Renewing Your Faith with a Rediscovered Spiritual Practice by [Dodd, Patton, Riess, Jana, Van Biema, David]](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51Qro05EK-L.jpg)
Here is the book summary:
Award-winning religion journalists describe a recently rediscovered medieval prayer tool that provides fresh inspiration and daily prayers for contemporary Christians.
All people of faith struggle at times to sustain a flourishing prayer life--a loss felt all the more keenly in times like ours of confusion, political turbulence, and global calamity. The Prayer Wheel introduces an ancient prayer practice that offers a timeless solution for the modern faithful.
The Prayer Wheel is a modern interpretation of the Liesborn Prayer Wheel, a beautiful, almost wholly forgotten, scripture-based mode of prayer that was developed in a medieval times. The Liesborn Prayer Wheel resurfaced in 2015 in a small private gallery near New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. It faithfully and beautifully presents seven prayer paths for personal or group use. Each path invites contemplation on the "big ideas" of the Christian faith--the Lord's Prayer, the Beatitudes, the gifts of the Holy Spirit, and key words from the life of Christ.
In the tradition of lectio divina and walking a labyrinth, The Prayer Wheel simply and directly takes readers into a daily, wholly unique encounter with God. As the prayers in this book unfold, readers will find an appealing guide for contemplation, a way of seeing God in new ways, and an essential new tool for Christian formation.
All people of faith struggle at times to sustain a flourishing prayer life--a loss felt all the more keenly in times like ours of confusion, political turbulence, and global calamity. The Prayer Wheel introduces an ancient prayer practice that offers a timeless solution for the modern faithful.
The Prayer Wheel is a modern interpretation of the Liesborn Prayer Wheel, a beautiful, almost wholly forgotten, scripture-based mode of prayer that was developed in a medieval times. The Liesborn Prayer Wheel resurfaced in 2015 in a small private gallery near New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. It faithfully and beautifully presents seven prayer paths for personal or group use. Each path invites contemplation on the "big ideas" of the Christian faith--the Lord's Prayer, the Beatitudes, the gifts of the Holy Spirit, and key words from the life of Christ.
In the tradition of lectio divina and walking a labyrinth, The Prayer Wheel simply and directly takes readers into a daily, wholly unique encounter with God. As the prayers in this book unfold, readers will find an appealing guide for contemplation, a way of seeing God in new ways, and an essential new tool for Christian formation.
And now, my review:
The Prayer Wheel is a book about a wheel that you can follow around as a journey in prayer. It moves from place to place and has the idea of always leading you "home". This means to God as the ultimate source of prayer, power, and peace. I have been on many silent retreats that have used many different methods of being silent before the Lord. They have included Lectio Divina, Consciousness Examen, Contemplative Prayer, the Labyrinth, etc. This book leads you through 7 weeks and beyond of day-to-day times with the prayer wheel. At the end of the book, they encourage you to take the tools and bring your own reflections and creativity to it to make it your own. This is how I will use this book for my personal use. I am not Catholic. I found doctrinal differences throughout this book that I marked all up with the Scripture and so I will change it to make it follow my Protestant faith in Jesus. If you are looking for resources from a Protestant view, I would recommend you check out author Jan Johnson and also the study of Live A Praying Life by Jennifer Kennedy Dean.
I received a copy of this book from Blogging For Books in exchange for my honest review.
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