God You already know, the 300px

To colleagues and friends
in Soul Space at the
Greenbelt Festival

Contents

1  Editors’ introduction

PART 1: YOUR OWN EXPERIENCE OF GOD

2  Stages of spiritual growth

3  The God you already know

4  Religious experience in the Bible

5  God can speak to us through anything

6  Mother Teresa’s unknown story

7  The absent, silent God of the Bible

8  Prayer

PART 2: DEVELOPING YOUR PRAYER LIFE

9  Creative change

  • Introduction
  • Reviewing your life
  • Changing the structure of your life
  • Finding your faith community

10  Exploring prayer and you

  • Introduction
  • Finding your space
  • Finding your way
  • Finding a rhythm for your day

11  Finding new ways to pray

  • Introduction
  • Blogging as prayer
  • Colourful prayer
  • Daily Office
  • Distractions in prayer
  • Drawing and using a labyrinth
  • God basket
  • Holding cross
  • Jesus prayer
  • Journalling
  • Lectio Divina
  • Prayer with my body
  • Living with mystery
  • Nature walk
  • Prayer walking
  • Praying with the Bible
  • Praying through the body
  • Praying with stones
  • Sacred space
  • Silence and the senses
  • Synchronicity
  • Using active imagination
  • Using the rosary
  • When ‘God language’ breaks down

PART 3: THE STORIES OTHERS TELL

12  God in our passions

  • Introduction
  • Patchwork
  • Singing
  • Picture framing
  • Wood carving
  • Cooking
  • Hospitality
  • Photography
  • Living without a goal
  • Modern art
  • Gardening
  • Hills and moors
  • A walk on the wild side
  • Bird watching
  • Dogs
  • Working out
  • Swimming
  • Dancing
  • The Stones
  • Justice
  • Novel reading
  • Su Doku

13  God in our pain

  • Introduction
  • Losing Iona
  • An autistic child
  • Blindness
  • Employment, redundancy and job hunting
  • Learning to surrender
  • ‘It’s all good stuff!’
  • Divorce
  • Escaping death
  • The death of my parents
  • Living with cancer
  • The absence of God
  • Departure from the dark God
  • Caring at home
  • Living with Parkinson’s
  • Remembering the fallen

14  God in the midst of life

  • Introduction
  • Sexuality
  • Celibacy
  • A civil partnership
  • Marriage
  • Married to a Hindu
  • Motherhood
  • Fatherhood
  • Being a granddad
  • Relationships
  • Entering ‘liminal space’
  • Sabbatical space
  • Leaving the convent
  • Retirement
  • Vocation
  • The solitary life
  • At work

PART 4: OVER TO YOU

15  The Next steps

  • Finding a Church