Name: Beauty's Field
Price: 11.32 GBP
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Author: Laurence Freeman
ISBN: 9781848256699

As the leader of the World Community for Christian Meditation, Laurence Freeman's calling takes him all over the world to teach and lead groups who want to practice contemplative prayer. In this spiritual travel memoir, he recounts timeless, memorable and moving stories of people, places and events in which he has encountered God 's transformative presence. The title of the book comes from a Shakespeare sonnet and the book explores how the life of God can be found in the most unlikely places, not only in the world's beauty but even in its tragedy. Slum priests quietly bringing hope to the favelas of Brazil, the gloriously fat stone ladies of Malta which are the world's oldest depictions of God, the different effects of a mountain-top retreat on an investment banker, a tired social worker and a cancer patient, the impact of a child's death on a whole community - these and many more stories movingly reveal how the sacred strains to find expression in every life, every place, every day.

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I know Laurence Freeman from his wonderful Christian Meditation books, and here I find another wonderful series of meditations and contemplations, but these are taken from his journals and his travels around the world, here we meet a host of peoples form many different places and many different situations and through them we see glimpses of the ordinary and the transformed, we see hope and loss, community and isolation, but most of all through these we hopefully will come to see ourselves and our potential and most of all we will meet the sacred and divine in each other too. This is a beautiful book with 40 short thoughtful engagements, contemplations, meetings that are well worth taking a day each to think on. Though not intended as such it would make a wonderful alternative lenten companion, but it stands alone at any time.

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