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Let us Bless the Lord, Year One: Advent through Holy Week
Meditations on the Daily Office
by Barbara Cawthorne Crafton
Popular author, retreat leader, and priest Barbara Crafton rises early each morning, lights a candle, opens her Book of Common Prayer, and reads the morning office — the ancient Christian service that praises God at the beginning of a new day. When she is done, Crafton usually sits down at her computer and sends out an e-mail that says simply, "Let us bless the Lord," the traditional closing line of the morning prayer service. Her devoted readers reply, "Thanks be to God."
Many people take the time to read a little something along with daily prayer, something to get them thinking, reflecting, giving thanks, feeling something they've forgotten they felt. For some, that little something is almost all the prayer they have.
Let Us Bless the Lord contains a meditation for each day in Advent through Holy Week of Year One in the two year lectionary cycle of the Daily Office. It is the first in a four-volume set of these daily meditations.
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Finding Time for Serenity: Every Woman's Book of Days
by Barbara Cawthorne Crafton
"Crafton presents a series of 365 finely crafted daily meditations that urge women gently and persuasively to seek serenity in the midst of their harried lives. With evocative imagery and sparkling narrative, Crafton locates the sacred in daily experiences such as a mother and child's sharing a subway ride to work and school and a single mother's quest to provide food, housing, and love for her children. These powerful meditations are beautifully rendered and cut across the range of women's experiences. Highly recommended."
- Library Journal
"Barbara Crafton...what a lovely writer. Not only that, she is a mother, grandmother, and Episcopal priest living in the suburbs but working in New York City. She knows what it is to be busy---and that's why she wrote this book: to remind each and every one of us of the wisdom and beauty each day of our life can hold, if only we would stop to appreciate it. Her words speak to all of us, and they help to restore balance and bring perspective to our lives. So if your life is spread too thin--whose isn't?--FINDING TIME FOR SERENITY will be a comforting and transforming experience. And if you liked this book as well as I did, you'll also want to read Barbara's other book, MEDITATIONS ON THE BOOK OF PSALMS, which also is a guide to the care and feeding of one's spirit."
- E. Zack, Senior Editor, The Ballantine Publishing Group
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The Almost Daily eMOs
by Barbara Cawthorne Crafton
Get the eMos from before you started to receive eMos.
"Barbara Crafton has done it again. Writing with her own delightful
blend of warmth and irony, she offers us a glimpse into her life as
dedicated priest and down-to-earth woman, presenting profound truths
with a deceptive ease. This is a book to be read slowly and savored."
- Margaret Guenther, spiritual director and author
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From The Geranium Farm
A Second Crop of Daily eMails
from Barbara Cawthorne Crafton
This is a sequel to Crafton's popular "almost daily" and "mostly reverent" email meditations which have become a lifeline to an increasing number of listserv readers around the country and the world. These meditations capture the variety and richness of daily experience that we all seek to emulate as we strive to live in faith.
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The Sewing Room: Uncommon Reflections on Life, Love and Work
by Barbara Cawthorne Crafton
"A lively book...honest, funny, sad...impossible to put down."
- Madeleine L'Engle
"Barbara Crafton's essays are everyone's heirlooms."
- Cynthia Ozick
"This is another soul-friend encounter with memories that last."
- Sisters Today
"As a minister is trained to do, Crafton uses failures and triumphs to illustrate
lessons about life. To her credit, she does not use every essay to drum home
the joys of Christianity... Weaving together threads of the lovely and the ugly,
Crafton shows the richness of life."
- American Reporter
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Let Every Heart Prepare: Meditations for Advent and Christmas
by Barbara Cawthorne Crafton
"Barbara Crafton, through the window of familiar hymns, touches the very depths
of our lives. In a warm and caring manner these reflections seem to speak to the
reader in an uncanny way--it is as though this "one" was written for me, and that
happens page after page. This collection of reflections on Advent and Christmas
hymns offers the reader a real sense of hope and a source of inspiration."
- The Right Reverend Edmond L. Browning
Presiding Bishop of the Episopcal Church, retired
"Barbara Crafton's Let Every Heart Prepare is a wonderful way to deepen our
experience of the seasons of Advent and Christmas. From her first page,
comparing prayer to pantyhose, to one near the end, reminding us that angels
are not our departed relatives newly fitted out with wings, her writing is
delightfully different enough to unsettle our embedded ways of thinking about
Christmas. In exchange, Rev. Crafton enlarges our hearts with utterly serious
but not solemn meditations on hymn fragments, inviting us into new encounter
with the great mystery of God become flesh in Jesus Christ."
- Norvene Vest
Author of Friend of the Soul: A Benedictine Spirituality of Work
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Living Lent: Meditations for These Forty Days
by Barbara Cawthorne Crafton
For centuries the words and poetry of our hymns have spoken to us of God. Many people, in fact, find that what is heard in poetry and music sinks more deeply into the soul than anything else. And so it is to the beautiful seasonal hymns that Barbara Cawthorne Crafton turns for inspiration for daily meditations during this great devotional season of the church year.
"I hope that you find yourself humming familiar tunes to yourself as you read, and that this condition persists for the rest of the day," writes Crafton. Those who have known the hymns forever as well as those who are new to these verses will find them, and Crafton's meditations on faith, prayer, forgiveness, healing and more, an excellent companion for these important seasons of the year.
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Yes! We'll Gather at the River!
by Barbara Cawthorne Crafton
"Make no mistake about it, this is a most deceptive little book. Seeing it in a bookstore you might pick it up, supposing it to be simply one more entry in the spiritual sweepstakes. And you might find yourself, 15 or 20 minutes later, still reading."
- Anne McConney, Episcopal Life
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Blessed Paradoxes: The Beatitudes as Painted Prayer
by Barbara Cawthorne Crafton
Illustrated by Dee Schenck Rhodes
Foreword by Phyllis Tickle
"...elegantly simple. Drawings faced by scripture are followed by a Crafton
poem and a full-color painting that represents the promise in the blessings."
- Kenneth Arnold
"Barbara Cawthorne Crafton's poetry helps the reader to hear the beatitudes in a
new way...short in pages but deep in reflection."
- Marcy Weydemuller, Christianity and the Arts
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Meditations on the Psalms: For Every Day of the Year
by Barbara Cawthorne Crafton
"Crafton writes with a combination of toughness and compassion; her stories
are funny and tragic, and her observations about everyday life are well stated."
- Library Journal
"Crafton has a good eye for mystical moments and for the ways we can see
God's presence in the midst of everyday life."
- Spirituality & Health
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Mass In Time of War
by Barbara Cawthorne Crafton
Crafton told Trinity Life in an interview: "We’re living in a time of great fear; by the time these sermons are presented, we could already be at war. During times like these, people are seeking hope, steadiness and stability; for many of us, that’s the very reason we go to church."
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Some Things You Just Have to Live With
by Barbara Cawthorne Crafton
Everybody figures it out sooner or later: Even in a Botox world that promises eternal youth, some things—from aches and pains to wrinkles, from menopause to the empty nest—you just have to live with. But despite the challenges, those who are reaching middle age—yesterday’s Baby Boomers—might not want to turn back the clock. Instead, as their bodies change and their priorities shift, they’re looking to cull wisdom from their experience and find spiritual meaning in their re-examined lives.
In Some Things You Just Have to Live With, author Barbara Cawthorne Crafton explores the "spilled milk" of our lives, the physical changes our bodies endure, and the new and energizing purpose we can discover by plunging into the middle of life in a deeper—and sometimes mystifying—relationship with God.
A wonderful storyteller, Crafton writes with humor and pathos rather than a heavy hand, allowing readers to see themselves and their own lives in the unfolding pages. Some Things You Just Have to Live With is a source of inspiration—and smiles—to those navigating the turbulent waters of the middle of life.
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Let Your Life Speak
by Parker Palmer
A deeply comforting affirmation of one's own journey, this book has given many directees the power to discern a path of personal integrity and authentic faith.
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Hearing With the Heart: A Gentle Guide to Discerning God's Will for Your Life
by Debra K. Farrington
Another lovely and very practical approach to the knotty problem of discernment by a gifted writer and retreat leader.
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Learning to Hear With the Heart: Meditations for Discerning God's Will
by Debra K. Farrington
A companion volume to Debra Farrington's Hearing With the Heart, this is a book of thirty daily meditations.
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Broken Body, Healing Spirit: Lectio Divina and Living with Illness
by Mary C Earle
A gifted spiritual director and priest, Mary Earle has written a remarkable book about drawing strength from ancient spiritual practices in the midst of physical weakness and pain.
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Grace's Window: Entering the Seasons of Prayer
by Suzanne Guthrie
Suzanne thinks we learn to pray because we learn to see. Use this one as daily devotional reading, or just eat it all in one big gulp, as I did.
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Praying the Hours
by Suzanne Guthrie
Marking the passage of the day with prayer, no matter what your walk of life.
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Holy Listening: The Art of Spiritual Direction
by Margaret Guenther
This is now a classic for spiritual directors, or anyone interested in knowing more about the art of spiritual direction.
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My Soul in Silence Waits
by Margaret Guenther
A meditation on Psalm 62 from one of our wisest spiritual directors and writers.
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Knitting Into the Mystery
by Susan S. Jorgensen and Susan S. Izard
Knitters - there are 38 million of them in the United States alone - are part of a long and quiet tradition that's both plainly practical and deeply spiritual. With needles clicking, they weave together not just garments to warm the body but also comfort and companionship to nurture the soul.
This tradition is flowering today through knitting ministries, a worldwide ecumenical movement of small groups of women who gather to pray and knit for those in need. As they create shawls for people burdened with illness and sorrow, their handiwork becomes an expression, not only of their love and concern, but also of the loving care of the God who works through them.
In this beautifully illustrated book, the authors - a United Church of Christ minister and a Roman Catholic laywoman - share stories of how the knitting ministry has touched lives and hearts around the world. They offer directions for knitting the shawls and for starting a parish or community knitting ministry. The book also provides a selection of prayers, written from many faith traditions, to offer along with each completed shawl.
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Still Christian After All These Years
by Barbara Allen
If you're lucky, you're born into a faith you can live with and die with: faith of our fathers, good enough for mother, homegrown and all spelled out. If you're even luckier, it all falls apart somewhere along the line, and you have to start from scratch. --From the Introduction
Author Barbara Allen writes of the long and painful progress from her childhood in a rigid fundamentalist home to the embrace of a generous, loving Christianity. Along the way she spends a year at Bob Jones University, accompanies her pastor husband to a dizzying number of small churches, has a nervous breakdown, goes back to school, and takes halting, but steady steps into a joyful independence. She tells her story with honesty, humor, and irony, evoking not only the religious milieu of her experience, but also the mores and attitudes of the second half of the twentieth century.
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Contemporary Office Book
A handsome devotional book that follows in the tradition of the Daily Office Book.
Not cheap, but so convenient for those who pray the Daily Office. A lovely gift for a select few.
This single volume contains all the material necessary for the reading of the Offices in Rite Two. The complete psalter, necessary prayers, and collects, as well as the New Revised Standard Version of the scripture readings are found in this deluxe leather-bound volume with gold edges, ribbon markers, and its own matching travel case.
(2,884 pp)
...or this one, in two smaller, easier-to-handle volumes for ease on the subway or the bus - again, not cheap, but so convenient...
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Daily Office Book
(2 volume set)
This bonded leather set of two books in a matching slipcase contains the Office, Psalter, Prayers and Collects, as well as the texts of the readings for both years in the Revised Standard Version of the scriptures. Gold edges and ribbon markers complete this set, designed for frequent use.
2 volumes, 3,296 pp - 4x6 Revised Standard Black Leather, Bonded
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Keeping Silence
Christian Practices for Entering Stillness
by C.W. McPherson
People often have trouble with silence -- finding it, keeping it, plumbing its hidden riches. Fr. McPherson guides us through concrete, easy to use practices to enhance our appreciation and use of silence in prayer and meditation.
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This Far by Grace
A Bishop's Journey Through Questions of Homosexuality
by J. Neil Alexander
An important new book for individuals and parish small groups seeking to understand and discuss a hot-button issue sanely and with mutual respect: Peter Gomes has written: "'From fear to love, from conditional to unconditional, from judgment to mercy,' this is the conversion experience of one wise bishop whose caring discernment on the vexed subject of homosexuality is what the over-heated Episcopal Church needs now more than ever."
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Walking the Way of Sorrows
Stations of the Cross
by Katerina Katsarka Whitley and illustrated by Noyes Capeheart
Each year on Good Friday, Christian congregations all over the world walk the Stations of the Cross, a commemoration of Jesus' walk to Calvary. In Walking the Way of Sorrows, artist Noyes Capehart and writer/journalist Katerina Whitley provide a fresh resource for congregations and individuals who want to explore the meaning of these Stations more deeply. Capehart's stark and powerful blockcuts of the fourteen Stations are accompanied by monologues from the point of view of someone at each station.
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HARC: Inside Chants
Ana Hernandez and Ruth Cunningham
Composers and singers Ana Hernandez and Ruth Cunningham have prodcued a gorgeous and deeply contemplative collection of chants from many traditions. Sound has moved us to places we couldn't imagine before we began to chant. The chants on HARC come from the Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, and Jewish traditions. We offer them to you for your use and pleasure.
"For there is nothing hidden, except to be disclosed; nor is anything secret, except to come to light. Let anyone with ears to hear listen! And he said to them, Pay attention to what you hear; the measure you give will be the measure you get, and still more will be given to you." Gospel of Mark 4:22-24
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Living Water
Baptism as a Way of Life
by Klara Tammany
Klara Tammany provides a blend of prayer, song, scripture, silence, poetry, visual arts, storytelling, group discussion, and personal reflection. This is, quite simply, a book about water. But what a book!
No longer mere, occasional refreshment, Living Water inundates, becomes life's very medium. This text makes for excellent catechumenal preparation but is intended for use by all Christians--those who are years into their journeys as well as those who are beginning. Use it in a group or for private meditation.
A lovely gift for someone who will receive the sacrament of Baptism at Easter.
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Gardening with God
Light in Darkness
by Jane Mossendew
A different plant every day -- what could be finer? How to grow them, who has loved them in the past, and where. How to pray and meditate with them -- who says plants don't pray? Jane Mossendew's has put a lifetime of reading and prayer into this project, and the result is an inspiring book that can be read on a variety of levels.
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Centering Prayer in Daily Life and Ministry
by Gustave Reininger & Thomas Keating
Sometimes the best thing to say in praying is nothing at all. This book celebrates Centering Prayer as a common ground for Christian unity. For people who have used Centering Prayer for years and for newcomers to it alike, this rich and diverse set of responses to it is a delight.
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Open Mind, Open Heart
The Contemplative Dimension of the Gospel
by Thomas Keating
A classic work of Christian spirituality by an acknowledged spiritual master, Open Mind, Open Heart initiates the reader into a deep, living relationship with God. Keating gives an overview of the history of contemplative prayer in the Christian tradition, and step-by-step guidance in the method of centering prayer. Special attention is paid to the role of the Sacred Word, Christian growth and transformation, and active prayer. The book ends with an explicit treatment of the contemplative dimension of the gospel.
The hardback format of this book is a beautiful gift edition of this classic work of spirituality, complete with ribbon marker.
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Princess Beads!
by Debbie Sharp Loeb
We don't look like old ladies in our eyeglass chains -- we look like princesses! It's all in how you think about it. Bead artist Debbie Sharp Loeb makes these no-two-alike chains for the Farm -- each also has a clasp, in case you just want to wear it as a necklace.
Got a really cool grandmother? An awesome teacher? Just now getting in touch with your Inner Princess?
Each chain comes with a special copy of the May 7th, 2004 eMo entitled "A Princess at Last", which will explain the whole thing. If you don't remember that one, read it here in the "Daily Messages" page.
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