Hearing with the Heart: A Gentle Guide to Discerning God's Will for Your Life

By Debra K. Farrington

Book Overview

Only through learning to hear with our hearts tuned closely to God can we discern how we should find our way through the crowded and confusing thickets of our lives. In Hearing with the Heart, popular writer and retreat leader Debra Farrington leads you through a gentle process for discovering how to invite God's presence into every aspect of your daily life. Her story-filled discussions of key practices such as prayer, meditation, reading and reflection, and attentiveness to your body, your studies, and your relationships with your friends and family, help you discover how to be open to discerning God's will. Filled with a wealth of exercises, guidelines, and tools, Hearing with the Heart gives you the practical help you need to bring you closer to God. As you put these suggestions into practice you will find yourself opening more and more to God's infinite possibilities for you.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0787959596
• ISBN13: 9780787959593
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.2" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

Thoughtful

I found "Hearing with the Heart" to be everything I expected - a thoughtful approach to identifying a way forward in your life. I found a new way to view my past experiences and to have them impact my future journey.

great book

I borrow this book from a friend, and I like reading it alot, so I decide to buy myself one copy. This books offers step by step directions on how to discern God's wills for our lives. I've always wanted a book that not only tells me what it means by listening for God's voice but also "HOW" can we listen for God's voice. This book offers me what I've looked for. A great buy and I'm thinking about buying for my friends as Christmas gifts.

A wealth of information and inspiration

Debra Farrington presents a rather complete compendium of a variety of discernment tools in an easy reading, inspiring and thought-provoking manner. Whether you are hoping to find a path toward a specific goal or simply looking at how God is working in your life, this is a very helpful and enjoyable book.

Discernment as practical art

Debra Farrington's book offers sage, practical, insightful direction to those seeking to know more about discernment and how to practice this art. The language is accessible--in my experience, people from high school students to octogenarians engage the material and actively learn from it. The book is a valuable resource for anyone teaching courses on Christian spirituality. The author mulches the text with scripture, stories from the tradition, anecdotes from personal history and other sources. Consequently, the reader is artfully drawn into an ongoing conversation about the practice of discernment, and emerges from the conversation with tools, hope and common sense.While keeping us mindful of the infinite mystery of God, Farrington reminds us that we have been given capacities to respond to God's desires for us as persons, community, nation, world.