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Dancing at the Still Point

Retreat Practices for a Busy Life
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Dancing at the Still Point by Gemma Simmonds offers an accessible guide for those unable to attend residential Christian retreats but seeking a meaningful daily relationship with God. Through flexible sessions, the book teaches retreat practices such as stillness, prayer habits, and discernment, drawing on Ignatian Spiritual Exercises. It shows how to integrate these spiritual disciplines into everyday life, balancing busy schedules with a rich prayerful existence.
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Ideal for readers interested in Christian spirituality who desire practical ways to nurture their faith daily without retreating from their usual routines. Suitable for busy individuals seeking spiritual growth within everyday life.

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Dancing at the Still Point is an inspirational guide to DIY retreats that will help you to make life-giving daily choices and find God in all things.

Dancing at the Still Point is an inspirational guide to DIY retreats that will help you to make life-giving daily choices and find God in all things.

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Retreats give us a space for contemplation and developing our relationship with God, but they aren't always possible. So can we still appreciate and detect the everyday God, even without special 'holy' places and spiritual practices?

Dancing at the Still Point is a book for those who can't or aren't ready to go away for a residential Christian retreat, but who want to be in daily relationship and connect with God in a satisfying way.

In sessions that you can work through at your own pace, Gemma Simmonds guides us through the practices and disciplines of retreats, such as being still physically and spiritually, developing a habit of prayer and learning some basic discernment skills. With insights from the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises, she explores how we can fold these practices into every day and shows that a rich life of prayer, in which we have time and space to let God be present, is achievable even in a busy working or family life.

Practical and flexible, Dancing at the Still Point will help you find a richer and more balanced life, where the spiritual takes its rightful place amid all the other calls on time and attention.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780281084715

Publisher: SPCK Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 15 July 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Form

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 128

About the Author

Dr Gemma Simmonds CJ is a sister of the Congregation of Jesus, Director of the Religious Life Institute and Senior Lecturer in Pastoral Theology, Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology, Cambridge. She teaches Christian Spirituality at the Cambridge Theological Federation. She has been a spiritual director, retreat giver and lecturer for over 25 years, working globally. She is the author of The Way of Ignatius (SPCK, 2019).

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