Strength for the Journey: A Guide to Spiritual Practice

by Renee Miller

This collection of thoughtful reflections looks at events and activities of everyday life and discovers routes to spiritual practice and deeper, daily spirituality. At the behest of CREDO Institute, Inc., which hosts health and wellness conferences and is supported by the Episcopal Church Pension Fund, priest and CREDO conference leader Renée Miller wrote the 20 reflections and grouped them into the Meditative Practice, Ministry Practice, Media Practice, Mind Practice, and Movement Practice. Each entry, accented with color photographs, is aimed at evoking mindfulness in the common activities of life, from music and movie going to reading, writing, and walking. For the reader who wishes to use the book to introduce or more deeply explore spiritual practices with other people or in an instructional setting, each chapter concludes with a nod toward who might be inclined to certain practices, based on individual predilections or personality. The Foreword by Herb Gunn lays out the theological underpinnings of spiritual discipline in what could stand alone as a primer on spiritual practice.

144 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2011

Reviews

[Rebecca · Rating 5 out of 5]

Tiny book, but full of food for thought.

[Janet Daniels · Rating 5 out of 5]

Renee Miller has such descriptive abilities so as to catch me up short. She also writes from a non-dualistic perspective, coaxing out the positive in each of the practices shes outlines. I love thinking about technology practice and movies practice as ways to come in touch with the spark of divinity.

[Will Hocker · Rating 3 out of 5]

A pleasant overview. No more, no less.

[Tim Williams · Rating 3 out of 5]

A useful little book of spiritual practices. It amazes me to think about what we do without knowing it.