A Week to Pray about It

by Johnson, Judy A.

• ISBN13: 9781561012466
• ISBN10: 1561012467
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-04-30
• Publisher: Cowley Pubns

Summary

Judy A.Johnson offers gentle meditations that help us follow the example of the mother of Jesus.

Table of Contents

Pondering: A Preface	xiii
I. Autumn
A Week to Pray About It	7	(2)
The Alarm Goes Off Again	9	(2)
Dancing Without Chains	11	(2)
Fresh Out of Answers	13	(2)
Mending Nets	15	(2)
Permission Slips and Mirrors	17	(2)
One Bread, One Body	19	(2)
On the Wind of Praise	21	(2)
Thy Name Is Love	23	(2)
``But What About Me?''	25	(2)
Growing Grandma Genes	27	(2)
Expecting Expectantly	29	(6)
II. Winter
The Christmas Barrel	35	(2)
Going Down to Egypt	37	(2)
Be Not Afraid	39	(2)
Finding Another Way Home	41	(2)
Pelican Love	43	(2)
The Imposition of Ashes	45	(2)
The Heart of Pain and Ritual	47	(2)
Letting Go of Mistakes	49	(2)
Sourdough Life	51	(2)
Living Together	53	(2)
Believing in the Unlikely	55	(2)
Let No One Despise You	57	(2)
Come Forth!	59	(2)
Longing for Spring	61	(6)
III. Spring
Firebird	67	(2)
Being Kneaded	69	(2)
On the Way to Forgiveness	71	(2)
Harrowing Hell	73	(2)
Seeing with Opened Eyes	75	(2)
Foot and Hand, Eye and Ear	77	(2)
Late Bloomers	79	(2)
Consider the Wild Violets	81	(2)
Going Down to Go Up	83	(2)
Running Away from Home	85	(2)
The Fragrance of Life	87	(2)
On the Death of Tulips	89	(2)
Far from Ordinary	91	(2)
Trust Jesus	93	(6)
IV. Summer
Painting by the Numbers	99	(2)
Focusing on What Matters	101	(2)
Questing the Blue Heron	103	(2)
Blooming Where You're Planted	105	(2)
O Come Let Us Adore Him, Again	107	(2)
Summer Abundance	109	(2)
Follow Me	111	(2)
Letting Go of the Sky	113	(2)
Let It Shine	115	(2)
Asking the Right Questions	117	(2)
Slow Flowering	119	(2)
The Sweets of Scripture	121	(2)
The Last Word	123	(2)
Acknowledgments	125