I am happy to announce that I have published a new book of reflections which were written over the last six months. You may recall that in September I released a “compilation” book gathering together and arranging what I have written in the previous years on the topic of prayer, the spiritual life, and union with God (an all-encompassing topic, so it includes most everything!). This was From Glory Unto Glory. While working on this compilation I was also beginning to write the reflections that would become this new book, and it serves as a fitting “continuation” and deepening of the topics I have addressed in my other writings, though also being comprehensible in its own right and standing on its own.
I have been “sitting with” the words of this book for a few months now, and revising and deepening here and there, while also completing the third part of the book, and now I am glad that I am able to release it in time for Lent (albeit a bit late, perhaps), if this is in anyone’s interest. Hopefully our new printer will get a copy to you within two weeks at most! Here is the little summary from the back cover:
“Within these pages are contained a variety of reflections centered upon the beautiful reality at the heart of our existence, sending its light and warmth—its very heartbeat—throughout all things: the immeasurable love of God for each one of us, and his tender and ardent desire to unite us to himself in an intimacy of mutual belonging and reciprocal gift, all bathed in wonder-filled awe and lighthearted playfulness. We explore this reality from many different angels, and indeed let its clarity “distill” into countless other aspects of our life, from the true beauty of prayer and the gratuity of love to correcting mistaken notions that threaten to steal the joy and the expansiveness of the life of faith and relationship with God. Light is hopefully shed on the experience of growth in holiness and the journey of entering ever deeper into God in prayerful intimacy, even to the consummate communion of the spiritual marriage in this life and to the glory of the new creation in the life to come. So too are addressed things such as the value of silence and solitude, the proper role of structure and discipline in the service of freedom, and even more the freedom that surpasses the law while fulfilling it in the liberty of the filial heart sharing in the play of the eternal Son of God, in which we are granted to become a living “eucharist” in the Eucharist of Jesus, whose existence radiates with the unspeakable beauty of eternal love and breathes forth the fragrance of God. In him each one of us finds our own unique song, and in him God wants to receive from us—from me—the tender kiss of love that is singularly my own, and in which he delights.”
You can purchase the book through the link below. It will eventually be on Amazon as well, however they are having some technical issues and so I haven’t been able to complete it until things settle for them.
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