A Wayfarer S Guide To Bringing The Sacred Home

Feeling Disconnected? This new book reveals spiritual ties between self, family, and community. A Wayfarer's Guide describes a journey to fulfillment. Is spiritual development simply a personal matter, or can it translate into a better connection with our families and communities? In turn, how does the outside world act on us spiritually? Author Joseph Sheppherd answers these fundamentally important--but seldom asked--questions in A Wayfarer's Guide to Bringing the Sacred Home. The book explores issues that shape our lives and the lives of those around us: the vital role of personal transformation in spiritual growth, the importance of spiritual training in raising children, the divine purpose of marriage and family, and processes for building strong communities.

Describes Bahá'u'lláh's life straightforwardly but with drama and a talent for evoking the ambience of the 19th-century Persian and Ottomoan milieus. Five appendices cover a chronology of the events in the life of Bahá'ulláh's life, Bahá'ulláh's family, the branches of Islam, millennial Christians, and his younger half-brother Mírzá Yahyá.

Author Gary Matthews documents why he believes that the Revelation of Baha'u'llah is divine in origin, representing a unique summons of unequaled importance to humanity. The book contains discussions of Baha'i prophecies concerning historical events and scientific discoveries. Among the events and discoveries discussed are the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the worldwide erosion of ecclesiastical authority, the Holocaust, and the development of nuclear weapons. A new and updated edition. The previous edition (George Ronald) was a limited release and not offered to the U.S. trade/consumer market.

This engaging and highly readable book, based on the author's professional experience in treating those who suffer from the devastating effects of emotional trauma, offers hope for those who suffer and those who care about them. Dr. McGraw describes how trauma affects the brain and, therefore, one's ability to carry out "good advice"; explains the subtle and largely hidden processes of attunement and attachment that take place between parents and children, examining their impact on all future relationships; tells what is needed for healing to occur; discusses the profound health benefits of spirituality and a relationship with God in assisting and accelerating the healing process; and suggests how members of the helping professions can begin to tap the deepest, most authentic parts of themselves to touch the hearts of those they seek to help.

Many people express a need for spiritual fulfillment but are troubled, or at best put-off, by what is often and loosely called "organized" religion. This is especially true today, when once-venerated institutions and trusted public figures have become subjects of investigation, sources of disappointment, and worse. People fear becoming victims of crime and alter their daily lives to avoid it. Terrorism committed in the name of religion and political causes painfully reminds us of how human capacities can be turned with devastating results against ourselves. At times much of the world appears to be in a state of decay, and sources of spiritual strength seem scattered and elusive. Nathan Rutstein understands this. His book, Seeking Faith: Is Religion Really What You Think It Is? describes his personal search for purpose and meaning in life, a search that led him to the Baha'i Faith and its distinctive perspective on the past, its reassuring understanding of the present, and its confident vision of the future.

God Speaks Again is a comprehensive introduction to the Baha'i Faith. Members of the Baha'i religion believe that periodically throughout history, God has revealed Himself to humanity through Divine Messengers-among them Abraham, Zoroaster, Moses, Krishna, Buddha, Jesus, and Muhammad-each offering fresh spiritual teachings suited for the age in which they appear. Bowers quotes extensively from Baha'u'llah 's own writings, which Baha'is regard as the most recent Divine Revelation for humankind, providing a welcome glimpse into its power and majesty. In placing the life of Baha'u'llah at the center of the story, he reveals an authentically inspiring figure and the inseparable connection between a new religion and an extraordinary human being touched by His Creator.

This sacred text lays down the basic teachings of Bahá?u'lláh on the essential unity of purpose behind the Manifestations of God, and explains the solid spiritual meaning of most literally interpreted predictions. Consisting of over two-hundred pages, written in the space of just two days, its remarkable lucidity, its foundational explanation of the universal purpose behind religion, its clarification of how to foster authentic human spiritual nature, and its assistance in helping to clear away long-held distractions and misapprehensions, principally from the accumulated traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam while reinforcing their genuine Divine origin, make this work one of the pivotal writings of His unmatched Dispensation. No reader who weighs even a small part of its content can deny that he or she has in their hands something welling out from a Realm beyond the normal range of human inspiration.

Discover the BahC!'C- approach to prayer with this collection of beautiful, soul-stirring prayers and meditations from BahC!'C- scripture. Pamela Brode's introduction explains basic BahC!'C- teachings on the subject of prayer and spiritual sustenance and considers questions such as What is prayer? Why pray? Are our prayers answered? Does prayer Benefit the world? The selections that follow include more than 120 prayers and extracts from BahC!'C- scripture on themes such as assistance from God, comfort, contentment, difficult times, death, faith, healing, marriage and family life, protection, strength, and many others. These powerful selections are sure to sustain, freshen, and gladden your spirit.