Spirituality

First published in 1987, this is a remarkable and unusual book that addresses all of us who look for illumination `on the other side of the dark'. It makes a poignant complement to Michael Mayne's last book, The Enduring Melody, which was written twenty years later, in the final months of his life.

The purpose of this book is to suggest ways of finding the treasure in what we may consider an unlikely field--ourselves. Through many practical suggestions for heightened prayer, including Ignatian exercises and Jungian exploration, God of Surprises guides readers along the inner journey which reveals to us a God we may not have expected to find.

The most important journey in life is the journey inwards, to the depths of our own being. It is a journey we are all invited to make. It takes us beyond words and images into silence.

A reflection, in the light of Christian faith, on the unfolding themes of a year. Four sections - Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter - are each further divided into three chapters, with some themes reappearing throughout.

Have you ever considered what it might be like to live in a conscious moment-by-moment communion with God? Letters by a Modern Mystic recounts Frank Laubach's spiritual journey as he began such an experiment, while serving in the 1930s as a lonely missionary on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines.