Overview:
The spiritual journey can feel
like a climb up a beautiful mountain that we have admired from afar. It looks
easy from a distance, but the closer we approach, the harder it appears, until
we are on the rockface and struggling to find our way to the top.
Our journey through Lent can be a
similar experience. For six weeks from Ash Wednesday, through Holy Week to
Easter Sunday, Lent is a season of spiritual quest – a challenge to ascend to
higher things, to come closer to God. It is a journey of hope and faith that
with every step we take, we can move closer to our best – our most fully human
– selves. And for this, our soul’s journey, we have a guide who calls himself
the Way.
Soul Journey is a day-by-day companion to help you find the Way, to be revitalised and to discover fresh horizons. Margaret Silf offers 40 daily meditations on passages from the Bible, and a reflection on the journey travelled so far for each Sunday. It has been written both for those who regularly undertake a Lenten study and for those for whom the season is not familiar. All are welcome on this journey – a journey not just for Lent, but for any time and season.
Margaret Silf is a spiritual explorer who travels widely,
engaging with other pilgrims, both through her books and on the retreats she
leads. The author of a number of books for twenty-first-century
soul-adventurers (including Landmarks, Hidden Wings and Born
to Fly), she is also a mother and grandmother and makes her home in
Staffordshire, England.
Key selling points:
> A brilliant new
devotional book of personal spiritual development.
> 40 short texts,
each with scripture reference and prayer, make this suitable for daily reading
at Lent.
> Encourages the
reader to make links between the experiences of biblical characters and
modern-day events.
> Takes the Bible
(The acclaimed Revised New Jerusalem Bible translation) as a starting
point to inspire readers in times of disharmony and uncertainty.
What was the
inspiration for the book?
This is
a spiritual book firmly inspired by and grounded in everyday experience. It
might be considered a modern-day Pilgrims Progress, but written in the language
we all use every day, and using stories that resonate with 21st
century life. It avoids any ecclesiastical or specifically ‘religious’ language
or emphasis.
Margaret hopes Soul Journey will
take us ‘outside ourselves’ into a much wider world where the reader may feel
more spiritually ‘at home’.
Who is the book intended for?
Soul Journey is primarily a Lent book for use
individually or in groups but it is also written for people who have no institutional
connections but who would find the book a valuable companion along their
spiritual journey, during a particular season such as Lent, or at any other
time. Pehaps for those who consider themselves
‘spiritual’ but not ‘religious’.
Even though
the book is explicitly described as a Lent book, and is scripture-based and
does culminate in a journey through the events of Holy Week, it is written in a
way that will help non-religious readers to make their own
connections with the events of Jesus’ life and death, without feeling coerced
into accepting a theology or any religious practice that might be alien to
them.
Where can one get a
copy?
All good bookstores and
www.dltbooks.com for £12.99 – you can read a sample first here.
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