Bøger af Nicki Verploegen

A book for those who know and love Merton...and those ready to discover his gift for speaking to the human spirit.Since his death in Bangkok, Thailand, on December 10, 1968, Thomas Merton's influence in both Christian and non-Christian spiritual traditions has grown unabated.'Meditations With Merton' is a collage of reflections, with Merton as your guide. Centered on selected passages from Merton's writings, Verploegen has written 30 brief meditations on themes such as personal integrity, sanctity, identity, integration, God, labor, solidarity and service, words of God, God's will, and love. Related Scripture passages and an original prayer complete each meditation.Merton was deeply concerned with the underriding spiritual yearning of every human heart....--Nicki VerploegenNicki Verploegen holds a doctorate in spirituality and has been giving retreats and spiritual direction for over twenty years. A Montana rancher's daughter, she has spent time in Japan, Indonesia, Tanzania, and Liberia exploring approaches to contemplative living. She is author of 'Planning and Implementing Retreats: A Parish Handbook' and 'Organic Spirituality: A Sixfold Path for Contemplative Living.' Currently, she resides at St. Joseph Dwelling Place in Vermont.

'Organic Spirituality' helps readers recover the sense of awe, vitality, and wonder that they had as children. Nicki Verploegen enables us to see that the contemplative life does not mean retreating from the world but discovering joy in the everday. Her sixfold path shows us how to find our way organically throughslowing down, sharing stories, stillness, solitude, surrender, and solidarity.If you want to experience God's love in the ordinary things in your life, read and apply this book. -- Joseph G. Donders, author of 'Jesus the Stranger'Sometimes the hardest step is knowing where and how to begin. Organic Spirituality provides a resounding answer, a jumping off place for living with more balance and conscious awareness of our solidarity with all the earth. -- Megan McKenna, author of Not Counting Women and ChildrenNicki Verploegen holds a doctorate in spirituality and has been giving retreats and spiritual direction for over twenty years. A Montana rancher's daughter, she has spent time in Japan, Indonesia, Tanzania, and Liberia exploring approaches to contemplative living. She is author of 'Planning and Implementing Retreats: A Parish Handbook' and 'Meditations With Merton'. Currently, she resides at St. Joseph Dwelling Place in Vermont.

An Indispensable Resource for Pastoral AgentsResponding to the need for resources to set up, sponsor, and lead retreats, Planning and Implementing Retreats: A Parish Handbook provides an array of simple yet creative tools to achieve a successful outcome. This book is a practical, time-saving guide for those who are involved in designing experiences to enhance people's spiritual lives--in parishes especially, but also in hospitals, campus ministries or other locales where Christian adults gather for spiritual formation. At the heart of this resource are five planning and design strategies for professionals and volunteers who want to create a well-organized and spiritually sensitive retreat experience. Other chapters deal with the theological and scriptural bases for retreat design, as well as special areas of concern, worship and liturgy, and participation evaluation. The strategies and tips outlined in this book can help planners--novice or experienced--nourish their own spiritual life as they prepare for the task of journeying with those in search of the living God. This is truly a fundamental and much-needed resource.Nicki Verploegen is co-founder of TATENDA International, a nonprofit started in 2007 to provide free rejuvenative retreats to caregivers in Africa and Asia. She has been conducting retreats and providing spiritual direction for over 25 years. She is a faculty member at the College of Mount Saint Joseph in Cincinnati and is author of.... Previously, she served as Director of Spiritual and Ministerial Development at Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, Massachusetts.