The Prayer Wheel: A Daily Guide to Renewing Your Faith with a Rediscovered Spiritual Practice - Hardcover

Dodd, Patton; Riess, Jana; Van Biema, David

 
9781524760311: The Prayer Wheel: A Daily Guide to Renewing Your Faith with a Rediscovered Spiritual Practice
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1524760315 ISBN 13: 9781524760311
Verlag: Convergent Books, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

DAVID VAN BIEMA was head religion writer at TIME from 1999 to 2009, where he wrote 25 cover stories for the magazine, as well as covers for Life magazine, People, and the Washington Post. His recent work has appeared in TIME, the Washington Post, TheAtlantic.com, and the Religion News Service. He is the author of the book Mother Teresa: The Life and Works of a Modern Saint.
JANA RIESS is an editor and writer who holds degrees in religion from Wellesley College, Princeton Theological Seminary, and Columbia University. She is a senior columnist for Religion News Service and speaks often to the media about issues pertaining to religion in America.
PATTON DODD is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, TheAtlantic.com, CNN.com, Financial Times, Newsweek, Slate, Christianity Today, The Shambhala Sun, and more. He has also appeared on a range of television and radio shows, including Hannity, The Laura Ingraham Show, ESPN Radio, and NPR.

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Week 1

Holy Is Your Name



Day 1

Stepping into the Path

To you, O Lord, I lift up my soul;

O my God, in you I trust.

Psalm 25:1

The wheel’s first path blends together foundational ideas of the faith: who God is, how he relates to us, how we relate to him, and what Christ’s followers are called to do and be in the world.

The Lord’s Prayer opens with “Our Father in heaven, hallowed [or holy] be your name.” When Jesus taught his disciples to begin prayer this way, he named two truths about God’s identity: God is as near and dear as a loving father, and he is also as holy and powerful as an almighty king. He’s both the creator-ruler of all things and a gentle dad—indeed, the term Jesus uses for “Father” here is more like “Daddy.”

The order of the diagram written here teaches the return home.

My father in heaven,

From you I come and to you one day I will return.

As I pray this week’s path, help me to find my home in you.

Our father in heaven, holy is your name.

As I reflect on the incarnation of Jesus, I ask for your gift of wisdom.

Blessed are the peacemakers.

For they will be called children of God.

You, O God, are my true home. Amen.

Day 2

Holy Is Your Name

It is that very Spirit bearing witness with our spirit that we are children of God.

Romans 8:16

Early Christians saw Holy is your name as a kind of petition—a request for God to take action. When we pray this line from Jesus’ prayer, we’re worshipping God in his utter perfection, while at the same time asking God to make the world into the kind of place where divine goodness is manifest to one and all.

Our father in heaven, holy is your name.

You are “father.” And you are “holy.”

Help us to live more deeply into this dual reality—

that you are as near and trustworthy as a loving daddy;

and that your very nature is flawless beyond imagining.

You are, O Lord, the essence of perfection:

No one is higher or better.

Nothing is more sacred.

You are the source and essence of all life.

You hold the universe together by your word.

Even your name is pure and flawless,

and you hold us, who are not those things, in your sway.

Yet you are a loving parent.

You give us life and teach us your ways.

You are tender, protective, generous, and kind.

When we stray, your whole desire is only for our good.

Show us, your children, how to embrace both your fatherliness and your holiness today.

Amen.

Day 3

Wisdom

If any of you is lacking in wisdom, ask God, who gives to all generously and ungrudgingly, and it will be given you.

James 1:5

In the Bible, wisdom is the spiritual gift that underlies all other spiritual gifts, the starting point and requirement for living the truly good life. “The wisdom that comes from heaven,” wrote the apostle James, “is first pure; then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without a trace of partiality or hypocrisy” (3:17).

Holy Spirit,

You have promised to give us wisdom if we ask, and without holding our need against us. You don’t fault us for asking, then asking again. I need this gift today.

Grant me deeper understanding in the common things, the things I do out of habit and without a second thought. May every part of my life be infused with your life—like light, like streams of waters.

Help me to rightly examine all things, to discern right from wrong, to see clearly what I should do. I need wisdom in

~my work

~my relationships

~how I speak to others

~how I spend and save money

~how I eat

~what I give my attention to throughout this day

And it’s not just for me. In the push and shove of competing opinions, our whole community needs wisdom. Grant us insight in our thoughts and desires, so that our minds can be open, uncluttered, and vibrant. Give us your wisdom, that we may be more like you.

Thank you for this gift.

Amen.

Day 4

Incarnation

And the Word became flesh and lived among us . . .

John 1:14

The incarnation is one of Christianity’s wildest and deepest claims: that the creator of the universe became human in the person of Jesus Christ. God used to live around here, and we knew him, John is saying. At the beginning of a letter that bears his name, John writes that he and his friends had “seen . . . looked at . . . and touched with our hands” the presence of God on the earth (1 John 1:1).

Lord Jesus,

You were both God and man, together in one being.

You know what it’s like to walk down a road. You know what it’s like to be hungry. To want things you can’t have. To injure yourself, feel pain, and have to wait for healing. To miss someone. To suffer great loss, with nothing but time and prayer to heal the ache.

You know what it’s like to see the world as a child, as a teenager, as an adult.

Help me to remember this. There’s nothing I’m going through that you don’t understand. I don’t have any fears or hopes or pains that you can’t imagine. You’ve been there, because you’ve been here, with us, on this earth, in all its beauty and all its brokenness.

Thank you, Lord Christ, for dwelling among us then, and living with us still.

Amen.

Day 5

Blessed Are the Peacemakers

And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace for those who make peace.

James 3:18

This Beatitude appears near last in the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5, yet it appears in the Prayer Wheel’s first path. Perhaps it was placed here because it brings “children of God” into the same prayer path as “Father.”

Tomorrow’s prayer connects “children of God” to peacemaking. For today, we speak a blessing over people whose actions bring restoration, healing, and reconciliation in our world.

Lord,

You said, Blessed are the peacemakers.

Help us to become peacemakers. Show us how.

Where can we show up?

Where can we be present where there is no peace?

What conflict do we need to go toward, not run from?

Where do we need to speak up for reconciliation?

To whom do we need to listen?

Where is our opportunity to make peace?

Thank you for those who defend the poor and powerless all over the world today. Thank you for those who devote their lives to the cause of nonviolence, restoration, and healing. May they know the blessing of your comfort and refreshment.

Help us all to notice in our own lives where we can invite and create peace—and nudge us to act.

Amen.

Day 6

For They Will Be Called

Children of God

He said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.”

Matthew 18:3

When suffering continues unabated for individuals and communities, we can become jaded. Today, we pray to become like children—at least in certain important ways. We remember that, in the incarnation, God chose to enter the world as a child—innocent, trusting, humble, and dependent. Jesus’ call to childlikeness is an invitation for us to do the same.

Heavenly Father,

Teach me a child’s way of living in my heart and mind today:

playful

open

curious

unguarded

innocent

quick to giggle

delighted in the moment

easily...

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Verlag
Convergent Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
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1524760315
ISBN 13 
9781524760311
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