For many of us, Lent is a season for listening – to God, to each other and to the world around us.
Here are some suggestions – from many different perspectives and understandings. Some are classics like Foster, Keating and Merton.
Enjoy and make sure you listen well!
- Anderson, Keith: A Spirituality of Listening: Living What We Hear
- Baab, Lynne: The Power of Listening: Building Skills for Mission and Ministry
- Bill, J. Brent: Holy Silence: The Gift of Quaker Spirituality
- Boss, Gayle: Wild Hope: Stories for Lent from the Vanishing
- Brenner, Juliet: Contemplative Vision: A Guide to Christian Art and Prayer
- Buechner, Frederick: Listening to Your Life
- Cyzewski, Ed: Flee, Be Silent, Pray
- de Caussade, Jean-Pierre: The Sacrament of the Present Moment
- Deere, Jack: Surprised by the Voice of God
- Goll, James W.: The Lost Art of Practicing His Presence
- Guenther, Margaret: Holy Listening: The Art of Spiritual Direction
- Fr. Gabriel: Divine Intimacy
- Foster: Prayer: Finding the Heart’s True Home
- _______ Sanctuary of the Soul: Journey into Meditative Prayer
- Hart, Thomas: The Art of Christian Listening
- Hipps, Shane: Flickering Pixels
- Huggett, Joyce: The Joy of Listening to God
- Iyer, Pico: Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going NoWhere
- Keating, Thomas: Invitation to Love
- Kelly, Thomas: A Testament of Devotion
- Kidd, Sue Monk: When the Heart Waits: Spiritual Direction for Life’s Sacred Questions
- Lenton, Joy (A Godspace Writer!): Experiencing Lent: Sensing the Sacred in Our Midst
- Long, Anne: Listening
- Loring, Patricia: Listening Spirituality
- Merton: Thoughts in Solitude
- __________ Contemplative Prayer
- __________ Dialogues with Silence
- Nepo, Mark: Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred
- Newell, J. Phillip: Listening for the Heartbeat of God
- Nouwen, Henri: The Way of the Heart: Connecting with God Through Wisdom, Prayer and Silence
- Palmer, Parker: Let Your Life Speak
- _______________ A Hidden Wholeness
- Phillips, Susan: Candlelight: Illuminating The Art of Spiritual Direction
- Rohr, Richard: Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer
- Schade, Leah: For the Beauty of the Earth – A Lenten Devotional
- Valters Paintner, Christine: Lectio Divina: the Sacred Art
- _____________ The Soul’s Slow Ripening
- Virkler, Mark: How to Hear God’s Voice
- Wilson, Rod: How Do I Help a Hurting Friend
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