Book Review: A Short and Easy Method of Prayer

"Prayer is the application of the heart to God, and the internal exercise of love."
- Madame Guyon

For those interested in something a bit different than today's Prayer of Jabez/How to Have Your Best Life Now manuals or wanting to read a primer on contemplative prayer, this book is a great place to start.
This is a new reprint- a "Special Journal Edition" with plenty of blank pages and places to record thoughts on Madame Guyon's ideas on the stages of prayer. Not a long read, but much to chew on, think over, put into practice and make a part of one's prayer vocabulary.

"If any will pursue the little path I have pointed out, it will lead them to intuitive prayer. God demands nothing extraordinary nor difficult; on the contrary, He is best pleased by a simple and child-like conduct.

That which is most sublime and elevated in religion is most easily attained: the most necessary Sacraments are the least difficult. It is thus also in natural things: if you would go to sea, embark on a river, and you will be conveyed to it insensibly and without exertion. Would you go to God, follow this sweet and simple path, and you will arrive at the desired object, with an ease and expedition that will amaze you."

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Comments

[eric wright]

Have you seen The Guide to Prayer for Ministers and Servants by Shawchuck and Job? I really like the combination of consistent structure, Scripture, and readings for reflection. There are three vols, but I like the first one best.