Irene Alexander's Practicing the Presence of Jesus: Contemporary Meditation PDF

Many Christians lengthy to grasp God extra deeply yet locate themselves constrained by means of previous understandings and methods of realizing. practising the Presence of Jesus rediscovers the centuries previous Ignatian culture of putting oneself into the gospel tale to event the presence of Jesus in an essential and possible way. every one bankruptcy explores one other perspective to return to the tales, whereas final actual to the scripture. Irene Alexander provides examples of her personal retellings, and genuine existence interactions with the gospels to demonstrate the method and make it obtainable to modern readers.
Readers should be led via a means of coming into the tales themselves, so they hook up with the Jesus, human and divine, within the current truth in their day-by-day lives. appropriate for brand spanking new believers in addition to those that have identified God for many years, those tales introduce readers to a colourful approach of being current to the truth of our God.

"Many Christians within the West now not have a deep reference to the biblical tale. they just do not learn it, with the exception of the occasional Psalm and the tale of Christmas. This e-book may well revive their curiosity in re-engaging God's grand and invitational narrative. For because the writer has so sincerely confirmed during this winsome and private storytelling of mental intensity and non secular perception, scripture is the profound tale within which we will be able to locate ourselves with all of our life's concerns. And the place we will pay attention the invitation to develop into a renewed and enlarged self within the grace of Christ and the generative paintings of the Spirit."
--Charles Ringma
Author of search the Silences with Thomas Merton and The looking middle: A trip with Henri Nouwen

"Don't reflect on this as a ebook to learn. imagine rather than it as an excellent dialog over coffee--or possibly whereas on an extended walk--with a hot and intensely clever Christian girl whose religion is grounded in her personal ongoing discussion with the dwelling God. this is not a ebook of rules. it truly is even more own than that. it's a booklet during which the writer invitations the reader to accompany her in attractive with scriptures--not as a textual content to be studied yet because the residing be aware of the writer that needs to, as a result, be engaged with the senses and mind's eye, not only cause and research. learn it slowly and get ready in your existence to be changed."
--David G. Benner
author of establishing to God and Soulful Spirituality

Irene Alexander is a psychologist and non secular director. She lectures at Christian background university and the Australian Catholic college in Brisbane, Australia. She is the writer of a number of books together with Dancing with God: Transformation via courting (2007).