Beside Still Waters

This is a 365-day devotional book. The pieces found in this book were selected from the first three years of the bimonthly devotionals distributed free throughout the United States by Still Waters Ministry of Clarkson, Kentucky. These readings are as diverse as the men who wrote them. Few books will possess so many different challenges because few books have so many authors that hold your attention. There is a theme verse for each day and a short Bible reading at the end of each day's reading. By following the Bible reading schedule at the bottom of each reading, you will read through the Bible in one year.

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Beside Still Waters" by Arthur Christopher Benson. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

An important collection of meditations and worship elements for individual or group use. Themes range from peace to prayer, and include seasonal topics. Hymn, scripture, and topic indexes are included.

Beside Still Waters is a book for shepherds of human sheep, persons who give themselves in a potent and selfless manner that individuals in their care who are stretched to the limit by the demands of life in an aggressive, ambitious, super-technological society may experience the abundant life, a life filled with meaning, direction, abundance, and fulfillment.

This book is a thought provoking honest look at the philosophy, and nature of truth, and Self-discovery utilizing poetry, proverbs, and scattered thoughts. This book looks at life in simple terms rendering it to paper with sincerity honesty, empathy, and understanding so that it can open your mind to new possibilities, and understandings. To reveal to you some of the simplicity, and beauty that life has to offer. It is a book that may change your viewpoints on certain things, and change your life for the better. It is the sincerest hope of the author that you will read this book, and it will help you in some small way so you can come away from it a better person. He also hopes this book will help to ease some of the suffering of those readers who are in pain, and make them feel good even if it is only for a moment.

A compelling question for people of faith today is how to remain committed to one's own religious tradition while being open to the beauty and truth of other religions. For example, some fear that Buddhism is a threat to Western faith traditions and express grave doubts about interreligious and cross-cultural encounters. Yet, many who have actually broadened their experience profess to have developed a deeper understanding of and a deeper commitment to their tradition of origin. This is what makes Beside Still Waters: Jews, Christians, and the Way of the Buddha such a new and meaningful contribution. Rather than offering research or lectures, Beside Still Waters takes a deeply personal approach, allowing the reader to delve into the individual experiences of fourteen Jews and Christians whose encounters with Buddhism have truly impacted their sense of religious identity. As Jack Miles, author of God: A Biography, says in the book's foreword, "The Buddhist presence in the religious world is far larger than a head-count of Buddhists can reveal." Beside Still Waters upholds this point by way of the diverse and eloquent authors who lend their perspective in its pages; these include Sylvia Boorstein, John B. Cobb, Norman Fischer, Ruben Habito, and other important members of the Jewish, Christian, Buddhist, and scholarly communities. Their collected anecdotes and interviews amount to an unprecedented and enduring work, sure to deepen our ability to understand each other, and therefore, ourselves.