Cowley Publications
Pages: 144
Trim: 5¼ x 7
978-1-56101-177-3 • Paperback • January 2000 • $14.95 • (£9.95)
978-1-4617-3291-4 • eBook • January 2000 • $13.99 • (£8.95)
SUZANNE GUTHRIE is an Episcopal priest at Holy Cross Episcopal Church in Kingston, New York, where she uses theatre, dance, and movement to teach Bible and worship to children. She is also a workshop and retreat leader, and the author of Grace's Window: Entering the Seasons of Prayer.
Chapter 1 Moving: A New House
Chapter 2 Sensing: Sounds and Scents
Chapter 3 Censing: Dust and Incense
Chapter 4 Gardening: Once and Future Figs
Chapter 5 Mapping: The Timepiece of the Hours
Chapter 6 Sleeping: The Hour of Vigils
Chapter 7 Waking: The Hour of Matins
Chapter 8 Reading: The Hour of Lauds
Chapter 9 Worship: The Hour of Terce
Chapter 10 Working: The Hour of Sext
Chapter 11 Coping: The Hour of None
Chapter 12 Magnifying: The Hour of Vespers
Chapter 13 Returning: The Hour of Compline
In this fine collection of meditations, Guthrie demonstrates how it is possible to sanctify the activities of sleeping, waking, reading, working, and gardening... Guthrie notes, ‘Every time I have ever moved, I have had to learn to pray all over again.' We all know the feeling. Whether writing about the accumulation of dust in her house in Poughkeepsie, their backyard garden, or worship services at the Holy Cross Monastery,...the author captures the devotional aspect of praising God in all that she does.
— Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat; Cultural Information Service
When Suzanne Guthrie moves into a new house, she is forced to reposition her prayer life in the new space and rediscover in her new routines the steady rhythm of God's time that has governed her life. She brings us along with her as she does this in her new book, which is both a series of reflections on change and persistence in the life of faith and a guide to prayer as an activity that belongs in daily life... Woven into this appealing book are meditations on the traditional monastic hours of prayer, which Guthrie uses as an internal clock to call her to prayer throughout the day... Her message is simple and effective: all of life is suffused with the glory of God.
— Deacon Kenneth Arnold; The Episcopal New Yorker