Daily Office- Remembering God's Presence Throughout The Day: Begin The Journey

This book is wonderful, timely, and much needed in the church and world today. Sadly, our society has seeped into the Church, shouting for us to hurry, hurry, peform, peform, succeed, succeed, even to the point of forsaking the foundation of our faith: cultivating our relationship with Christ first and foremost! The author leads us, through his own experience of being burnt out in ministry, on a contemplative journey of practicing the presence of God. It's "back to basics". I would highly recommend this book and all of this author's other material. LTE

This book is an excellent and essential companion to Scazzero's book, Emotionally Healthy Spirituality: Unleash the Power of Life in Christ. It is best used while reading through that book. Each chapter gives you 5 days of morning and evening guides to prayer that follow the material in the larger book. Those who have tried to form a habit of having a single, daily "quiet time devotional" and have become discouraged, ought to try this approach. Scazzero shows how it can be much more helpful to have more short periods of prayer throughout the day than to have one longer one. Periodic prayer during the day does much more to help one maintain an awareness of God's presence in our lives. Together these books offer some very helpful and accessible material on growing emotionally and spiritually healthy without being trite or shallow. I highly recommend these books. There is an older edition, Begin the Journey with the Daily Office, which has the same content, I think.