Encountering God -- Intimacy, art and meditation -- The climate of meditation -- The spiritual world as the soul's soil -- Cracking the husk : man's need for God -- To whom do we pray? -- The creative power of love -- A word of warning and encouragement -- Time -- Silence : discovering the way inward -- Aids in the pratice of silence -- Silence, mysticism and religious experience -- Exploring t…
Winter journey: the absence -- Texts for the wintry way -- The slanting toward solstice -- Spirit at the solstice -- The enemy in the dead of winter -- January thaw: a hint of presence -- The season of abandonment -- Winterfallow: patience for community and hope.
A Case for Caring -- Developing Your Skills of Evaluation -- Getting Started -- Nurturing the Relationship -- Self-knowledge and Responding to Loss -- Warning Signals and Referral -- Sharing in Everyday Life -- Strength for Caring.
Originally published: Dallas : Word Pub., ©1991. Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-311).
Introduction -- Likings and loves for the sub-human -- Affection -- Friendship -- Eros -- Charity. Abstract Analyzes the feelings and problems involved in different types of human love, including familial affection, friendship, passion, and charity. In this candid, wise and warmly personal book, C.S. Lewis describes the four basic kinds of human love -- affection, friendship, erotic love, a…
1. The Ground of all Forgiveness -- 2. Christ's Dying Prayer -- 3. If We Confess Our Sins -- 4. Put That on my Account -- 5. Forgiving One Another -- 6. Just as God Has Forgiven You -- 7. If Your Brother Sins -- 8. The Blessings of Forgiveness -- 9. Answering the Hard Questions about Forgiveness -- Appendix One: How Are We to Understand the Atonement? -- Appendix Two: What is the Unforgivable S…
A future and a hope -- Always, there is hope -- Mind your head and serve the King! -- The hopeful thinkers' prayer -- The door of hope -- Hope in hard times -- The anchor of hope -- The music and the words -- Hopefully yours -- How to be happy all of the time. Abstract For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord. They are plans for good and not for evil, to give you A FUTURE AND A HOPE.
What is anger? -- Managing your anger -- Why can't you just love me? -- Feeling controlled causes anger -- Myths that perpetuate anger -- Self-inflicted anger -- How pride influences anger -- Fear's effect on anger -- Loneliness creates anger -- Anger reflects inferiority feelings -- Managing a child's anger -- Why anger lingers -- Being accountable. Abstract Analyzes anger and describes ho…
Acknowledgements -- A brief and biased view of moral history -- What is wrong? -- The disappearance of sin: an eyewitness account -- A new social morality -- Sin into crime -- Sin into symptom -- Sin as collective irresponsibility -- The old seven deadly sins (and some new ones) -- Sin, so what? -- The bluebird on the dung heap -- Epilogue: the displaced preface -- index. Abstract An examin…
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-317).
The Codependant in your life -- Understanding Codependency : How does a person become a codependent? -- The Primary [and] secondary characteristics of codependency -- The Process of healing for a codependent -- Essential elements in the healing process -- Understanding Yourself : Your relationship to the codependent -- Your needs -- Your role in the codependent's life -- Facilitating the healin…
It's not easy -- God as the curegiver -- God, you, and me -- Why care? -- Family ties -- Move over, Freud! -- Touching spiritual depths -- Ministering to the whole person -- Servanthood vs. servitude -- A surprise gift : forgiveness -- Confession and absolutism over the back fence -- Tools of your trade : their use and abuse -- Prayer -- The Bible -- Sharing a blessing -- A cup of cold water --…
Originally published: New York : Harper & Row, 1948.
Contents: First words : be still and know -- The silence of God. Silence : the sound of infinity ; Distraction : when life outshouts God ; Contradiction : conflicting voices ; Mystery : a whisper of purpose ; Language : translating the transcendent -- The voice of God. Creation : a muffled voice ; Scripture : a sure & certain voice ; Christ : the Word became flesh ; Spirit : inside interpreter …
"A companion to A hunger for healing : the Twelve Steps as a classic model for Christian spiritual growth." Includes bibliographical references.