Finding God Within: Contemplative Prayer For Prisoners - Softcover

Leonardini, Raymond

9781480266520: Finding God Within: Contemplative Prayer For Prisoners

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1480266523 ISBN 13: 9781480266520

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

“Most people understand “prayer” to be asking God for various favors – health, safety, forgiveness, wisdom, or to express gratitude for gifts received. We learn to talk to God at an early age. As we grow older, and our lives become impossibly more complicated, we wonder: why doesn’t God answer my prayers? Why does God feel so far away from me? Many prisoners doubt any connection with God, and believe that God has forgotten them. Often traditional religious practices seem equally distant and empty. Contemplative Prayer is an entirely different approach to God and prayer. It is based on God speaking to us. All the techniques of this prayer focus on learning to “listen” to the Silence of God, letting go of past images of God, and getting beyond the negative judgments about our relationship with God. It is a direct and intimate route to the Divine, and a turbo-charged path to personal transformation.”

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About the Author:

Ray Leonardini is a former lawyer who practiced government and nonprofit law for nearly thirty years. After his retirement he turned toward his foremost area of interest: the Christian spiritual journey. For the last five years, as a Volunteer Chaplain, he has led prayer groups and taught Contemplative meditation and the Spiritual Journey at Folsom State Prison in California. He is also the Director of the Prison Contemplative Fellowship an association of current and former prison inmates committed to reaching out to prisoners and their families on their travels along the spiritual path.

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