Seasons of Your Heart: Prayers and Reflections, Revised and Expanded [Paperback]

Macrina Wiederkehr (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 30, 1991

In this masterpiece of simplicity, Macrina Wiederkehr offers a series of meditations to bring us closer to a "God for all seasons," revised and expanded into this new edition.

Designed for daily use as well as for retreats, Seasons of Your Heart is an eloquent and lyrical invitation to journey through the spiritual seasons of wonder, hope, love, mystery, and faith.

Macrina Weiderkehr shares her "seasonal struggle with God" and encourages us to reconize those same peaks and valleys in our own spiritual life. Using biblical passages, poetry, and excerpts from her journal, Wiederkehr provides meditative ideas and prayers as "postures" for realizing and approaching the holy in our daily lives.

These reflections and prayers, then, have grown out of a daily listening to God in the changing seasons of my spiritual life, "writes the author. "These reflections have grown out of my conviction that our God is not some Almighty Being beyond us, but a Mystery within."

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Meditations and prayers for realizing and approaching the holy in our daily lives.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: HarperOne (August 30, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0060693002
• ISBN-13: 978-0060693008
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #119,857 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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38 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The name of this book is most appropriate!, January 17, 1999

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This review is from: Seasons of Your Heart: Prayers and Reflections, Revised and Expanded (Paperback)

This book touches many subjects of the heart, and every subject has scripture. I've had heartbreaks in my life, and one line in this book touched me deeply: "When celebration is the only thing that makes sense, we have begun to understand the sacredness of life and death." Yes! That is where I am right now! Celebrating the Goodness of God, and thanking Him for people like Macrina Wiederkehr! I have all her books, and recently had the opportunity to meet Sr. Macrina and attend a retreat day in OKC. She has a way of awakening hearts. Thank you!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Seasons of Your Heart, August 21, 2005

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This little book is full of wonderful and warm stories and poetry that touched me. This Catholic Sister writes with a clarity and grasp of how God's spirit is real in her everyday that is unique, insightful and blessed.

5.0 out of 5 stars Insightful, December 24, 2011

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This review is from: Seasons of Your Heart: Prayers and Reflections, Revised and Expanded (Paperback)

I love this book. So much. I heard about it after seeing a friend with it at a camp. I haven't ever regretted ordering it and it has brought insight to my life. It is a very hopeful book and the reflections are beautiful. Macrina writes with lovely metaphors, often very visual and tactile metaphors, such as fear being wrapped in love. This is definitely a slow sort of book- it needs to be enjoyed in morsels, just a little bit everyday. I like to read a reflection in the morning, before I start my day. I find something relative to me in every reflection and my copy of the book is full of underlined words, starred passages, and dogeared pages. It has made me think of scripture differently and always inspires me to keep a very open relationship with God. A really wonderful book. I would recommend it to just about everyone.