Let Me Sow Love
Living the Peace Prayer of St. Francis

James E. Adams

A new experience of peace, a fresh perspective on love.

Take another look at the treasured Peace Prayer of St. Francis. Let Me Sow Love opens the beloved Peace Prayer of St. Francis line by line in a fresh new way. Author James Adams weaves scripture and reflections to highlight the themes of St. Francis, with questions to guide the reader in quiet prayer. He offers us a new way of seeing things, a new experience of peace, a fresh perspective on love.

Ideally suited for today’s busy lives, the sections of the book are short enough to be read at any time during an active day. Lively and accessible, Let Me Sow Love offers a quick respite, an opportunity to direct one’s attention to God and to let the words, concepts, and images of St. Francis shape your day and bring you peace.

"A Simple Prayer"
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born
to eternal life.

Riding the Dragon
10 Lessons for Inner Strenght in Challenging Times

Robert J. Wicks

While many of us may seek traditional therapy to help us deal with life’s difficulties, Zen, according to David Brazier in Zen Therapy, offers an alternative—dragon riding lessons.

Psychologist and best-selling author Robert Wicks is a specialist in the field of secondary stress and counsels people who help other psychologists, doctors, nurses, ministers.

He’s shown a generation the links between psychology and spirituality, working from the perspective that difficult times can offer striking moments of grace.

Now, in Riding the Dragon, Wicks offers dragon riding lessons, drawing upon both Eastern and Western traditions. In this warm, compassionate, and highly personal guidebook, Wicks offers encouragement and 10 lessons to help people engage their problems and grow through them:

10 Lessons
Prune carefully and often
Recognize your renewal zones
Catch the slide
Seek hidden possibilities
Engage the darkness
Pair clarity and kindness
Find love in small deeds
Seek perspective daily
Build a barrier of simplicity

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Butler Lives of the Saints

10 Lessons for Inner Strenght in Challenging Times

Butler Alban

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Lord Hear Our Prayer
Revised Edition

William G. Story & Thomas McNally, CSC

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Journeys of Courage
Remarkable Stories of the Healing Power of Community

Joy Carol

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