This book required all of me. My mind, my body, my soul and I am forever grateful to the authors for leading me into an active engagement with prayer. Not a quiet gathering in a circle but a fully engaged wholly applied prayer life. This is perfect for corporate and individual worship - for early morning matins or before bed devotions. Thank you Doug and Kathryn for this gift to the Church! I am most prayerfully yours, Don
This book is a fantastic resource not only for one's private devotional life, but for an entire community, helping to lead through various types of prayer.
Each chapter is a different type of prayer, with a short explanation, a written prayer and a "prayer posture"- a way to stand or gesture to use as you pray this particular prayer that will help you experience it and say it and pray it in a more tactile way. There's also a space to journal at the end of each chapter.
Types of prayers covered include: prayers of kindness, for strength, of praise, for courage, for guidance, of thankfulness, for change, for forgiveness, for the poor...
I could see both myself and my church community as well as communities like us making great use of this book, praying in many different ways, with many different stances. Pastors should consider this book as a good resource to get for those in your communities who help craft the experiential elements.