Finding God in the Ordinary

Currently, I am reading Margaret Guenther’s, “The Practice of Prayer,” but it is so much more. I highly recommend it to anyone seeking spiritual guidance and growth, as well as a big dose of clarity.

Today I read some more of Margaret Guenther and it really seems like every time I read a further chapter, it is an answer to the questions I am having. This was one on finding the Spirit (God) in the ordinary. Home life, family, drudgery; not feeling stuck but knowing rather that it is where you are called. She has such a way of putting the profound into simplicity.

Also she talked on professions, whether you are an artist or a bus driver, finding the Spirit (God) within it. I suspected it is not what I do but my motives and how I do it and whether I am good in all things I do, even if it’s just the dishes. She makes the comparison to the monk’s cell which I have already made numerous times on my own (I talk about this in the "New Age of Christ") to our daily lives such as the kitchen or the office or wherever, that we find and face ourselves in these ordinary places.

Reading Guenther, I feel much better about my decisions as well as what I am currently doing and why, and understand that we can each indeed find God in the everyday nook and cranny.

MARGARET GUENTHER (1930 - 2016), an Episcopal priest, was the director of the Center for Christian Spirituality of the General Theological Seminary in New York City. She was the author of “Holy Listening: The Art of Spiritual Direction,” and many other books.

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Cheryl Yale-Bruedigam, the angels’ author, has been writing spiritually for thirty years. With undergraduate studies in English and women's studies, she devoted over a decade of research and writing to women’s studies and women's spirituality. For the past five years, she has been diligently working in Angelology, as well as publishing a series of books on angelic guidance as well as "The New Age of Christ."

Bruedigam is a certified yoga and meditation instructor. She lives in New Mexico with her husband.

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