The Living Journal: A Way Toward Freedom in the Service of Life

This is one of several books which helped me during the early 90s when experiences of journal writing, centering prayer and lectio divina at a local parish deepened my journey of reflection and meditation. Highly recommended!

Sister Christian's Living Journal provides a useful approach to journaling. After taking a class of hers at the University of Detroit Mercy, her book continues to focus my journaling strategies.

This book is an excellent guide to journaling for beginners or people who have experience in journaling. The author provides suggestions for setting up a journal and establishing an atmosphere conducive to writing. She introduces "moves"(steps) and many techniques to help the flow of writing begin and be sustained. Her keywording, indexing and clustering techniques allow identification of areas to be further explored and is a useful way of referencing past writings. Readers will find gentle, adaptable and helpful direction in this book in their pursuit of journaling whether their beliefs are religious, spiritual, both or neither in nature.