Do you ever feel that there must be more to prayer?
Perhaps you long for your prayer life to be refreshed or deepened, perhaps you find yourself drawn to prayer but blocked in responding. Or maybe for you the word prayer tastes of guilt and binds you in the chains of should-haves and ought-tos.
Playing in Living Water offers an expansive vision of prayer as a wholehearted response to God, the mysterious More who is already here.
With 10 pathways into prayer and over 50 practices, Jennifer Goodyer invites you to step into a life of prayerful presence.
This is not a book of checklists or musts, it is a gentle encouragement to pray in freedom and as yourself.
“This is such an important and needed work. I can’t wait to gift it to every single person I know. There are those who are famished and hurting - this book will feed them. There are those who are hungry and growing - this book will feed them. There are those who have not ever bothered to check if they are hungry at all - this book will feed them.”
— Amy Knorr, spiritual director and chaplain to The Black Barn Online
“Jen offers us a humane vision of prayer: prayer is a gift to us as we are - in all our rich diversity and varied circumstances - and which allows us to share in nothing less than the living waters of God’s love.”
— The Rev Dr Matthew Bullimore, chaplain to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
“This is not a guilt-inducing book…. Here is material shot through with the colours of being at prayer, of being in a state of prayer, of finding times that are pregnant with prayers awaiting their birth.”
— From the foreword by The Rev Dr Leslie Griffiths, Lord Griffiths of Burry Port.
have questions about prayer?
“Allowing yourself to be loved ever more deeply by God is the gift and goal of prayer.”
— Jennifer Goodyer, Playing in Living Water