Preparing for the prayer retreat I facilitated last month meant I got to read a lot of great books, including Jon M. Sweeney’s Praying with Our Hands: 21 Practices of Embodied Prayers from the World’s Spiritual Traditions. The images of prayer–with our hands, in dance, at altars–are stunning. The text is thought provoking. Here’s an example: “We pray with our bodies when we put them in front of tanks. We pray with our hands when we link arms together to fight injustice. We are co-creators with the Divine when we resist evil. The world is more sacred at those moments.”
And, it’s taken me a while to work through it, but I’m enjoying Bob Rice’s Between the Savior and the Sea, a fictionalized behind-the-scenes look at Christ’s ministry, primarily from Peter’s viewpoint.
What’s on your nightstand?
