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eBook details
- Title: Mercy & Melons
- Author : Lisa Nichols Hickman
- Release Date : January 02, 2014
- Genre: Christianity,Books,Religion & Spirituality,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 6485 KB
Description
Mercy and Melons: Praying the Alphabet is a collection of lyrical meditations on the practice of
praying the alphabet. Each chapter focuses on a letter of the alphabet by naming an everyday object and a theological theme offering subtle and elegant takeaways to spark the reader’s imagination as well as their practice of prayer.
In the Hebrew acrostic tradition, praying the alphabet served as a pathway to memorization as well as a prompt for thoroughness. Even more so, praying the alphabet put all of the letters
into God’s presence so that He might arrange a person’s unspoken prayers.
Drawing on this
rich tradition, the book adds two dimensions. First, the book
encourages eyes to see the word made flesh in the melons and grasshoppers of daily life. And
second, the meditations draw the reader into the flesh made word by asking the reader to
articulate and name in specific ways what came alive for them each day.
Praying the Alphabet is a practice as timeless as the Old Testament and for every day that ends in y, this book offers momentum for the journey of prayer and paying attention.