Awaken Your Senses: Exercises for Exploring the Wonder of God

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Perhaps you've been missing out. God has given us five senses and a brain with two sides. Yet we often approach God in one way only: through words that are analyzed and processed logically in our left brain. The right brain, however, is the creative, intuitive center--the place that connects most to our seeing, smelling, touching, tasting and hearing, and that roots experiences in our hearts in transforming ways.

In Awaken Your Senses, longtime ministers Beth Booram and Brent Bill invite you to engage your right brain in your faith through sensory spiritual practices that position your heart for divine encounter. Readings and a variety of exercises that utilize your whole body lead you to...

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Overview

Perhaps you've been missing out. God has given us five senses and a brain with two sides. Yet we often approach God in one way only: through words that are analyzed and processed logically in our left brain. The right brain, however, is the creative, intuitive center--the place that connects most to our seeing, smelling, touching, tasting and hearing, and that roots experiences in our hearts in transforming ways.

In Awaken Your Senses, longtime ministers Beth Booram and Brent Bill invite you to engage your right brain in your faith through sensory spiritual practices that position your heart for divine encounter. Readings and a variety of exercises that utilize your whole body lead you to experience God in new ways by

tasting chocolate, words, matzoh, Scripture, forgivenessseeing the moon, wisdom, art, glory, your best selftouching others, stones, prayers, rubble, Jesushearing silence, music, pain, footsteps, the Spirit, the newssmelling gardenias, life, salty air, home, healing oil, coffee

Teaching you to pay attention in love to your surroundings, Booram and Bill will help you open your eyes and ears and nose to a sensuous faith--one in which God can be experienced each day as we live and move and have our being.

So whether you're weary, stuck, struggling, growing or on information-overload, the exercises and reflections offered here can bring refreshment--a cold drink of water, a gentle breeze--to your soul. Come experience God with all of who you are, and discover more of who he is.

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Modeling the best Sunday School teachers, Bill (Sacred Compass) and Booram (The Wide Open Spaces of God) get close to God via the five senses. The journey could so easily have been a skip instead of a sail; however, they truly manifest the book’s purpose: “to help more of you experience more of God.” The two ministers and workshop leaders accomplish this so well with natural sweetness from the inside, not with treacle glopped on top. Starting with the cover illustrations—a rose, a bird singing treble, threatening thorns, and a bitten pear, each image superimposing on another—the book divides naturally into five parts. Each chapter begins with questions based onpencil drawings by artist Marcy Jean Stacey. Within each chapter, the authors alternate essays, their voices nearly indistinguishable except for Bill’s wittier bits; they touch on the personal, such as Booram’s sacred hospital smells. Each chapter includes spiritual exercises. The two cite the Bible’s raising up of the five senses, augmented with quotes from many sensate Christians. It adds up to a deeply pleasing book. (Feb.)

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780830835607
  • Publisher: InterVarsity Press
  • Publication date: 12/12/2011
  • Pages: 208
  • Sales rank: 236,106
  • Product dimensions: 5.40 (w) x 8.20 (h) x 0.70 (d)

Meet the Author

Brent Bill is a writer, retreat leader and Quaker minister. He's the author and coauthor of many books, including Sacred Compass: The Way of Spiritual Discernment, Holy Silence: The Gift of Quaker Spirituality, Mind the Light: Learning to See with Spiritual Eyes, Holy Places: Matching Sacred Space with Mission and Message, and Imagination and Spirit: A Contemporary Quaker Reader. In addition, he is the author of more than one hundred short stories and nonfiction articles. He also is the author of the popular blog Holy Ordinary.

Bill is a graduate of Wilmington College and the Earlham School of Religion. He has been a local church pastor, denominational executive, seminary faculty member and go-cart track operator.

Bill lives with his wife on Ploughshares Farm, fifty acres of Indiana farmland that is being reclaimed for native hardwood forests and warm season prairie grasses.

Beth A. Booram is has been involved in vocational ministry for more than twenty-five years. She spent sixteen years on staff with Campus Crusade for Christ. Since that time, she has served in several pastoral roles within the local church, including at a 6,500 member church, where she led a weekly women's ministry of more than 500 women.

Booram is married to Dave and has four incredible, young-adult children. She resides in Fishers, Indiana.

Table of Contents

Introduction Part One: Taste Art Reflection
1. Introduction
2. Tasting Words
3. Keeping Kosher
4. Cravings
5. Smorgasbord
6. Tasting Forgiveness Part Two: See Art Reflection
7. Introduction
8. Creaturely Insight
9. Reframe and Refocus
10. Reflecting Glory
11. Going Off Grid
12. I See the Moon Part Three: Touch Art Reflection
13. Introduction
14. Textures
15. A Pile of Stones
16. Touching Absence
17. Feeling Your Prayers
18. Touching Jesus Part Four: Hear Art Reflection
19. Introduction
20. Soundtrack
21. Footsteps
22. All the News
23. Recurring Themes
24. Dinner Conversation Part Five: Smell Art Reflection
25. Introduction
26. Smells Like . . . Worship
27. Hospitals
28. Sea Salt and Midwest Mulberries
29. Organic Sweat
30. Wake Up and Smell the Communion Conclusion: Rhythms that Ground Us Back Matter Sensory Exercises: Additional Activities for Practicing a Sensuous Faith Resources for Awakening Your Senses Chapter Notes Acknowledgements Permissions About Brent About Beth

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