Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer

by Richard Rohr

Overview

This popular and bestselling book of the renowned Franciscan challenges people to move beyond the comfort of a settled life toward an understanding of themselves that is rooted in their connection to God. Only when they rest in God can they find the certainty and the freedom to become all that they can be. Contemplation has its place at the heart of Christianity, a place that allows people to experience how “everything belongs.”

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780824519957
Publisher:	The Crossroad Publishing Company
Publication date:	03/01/2003
Edition description:	Revised and updated edition
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.37(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Richard Rohr was born in Kansas in 1943. He entered the Franciscans in 1961, and was ordained to the priesthood in 1970. He received his Master's Degree in Theology from Dayton that same year. He now lives in a hermitage behind his Franciscan community in Albuquerque, and divides his time between local work and preaching and teaching on all continents. He has written numerous books including: Everything Belongs, Things Hidden, The Naked Now, and more.

Rick Adamson is an American Library Association award-winning audiobook narrator with over twenty years of experience in voiceover, spoken word, acting, corporate-sales training, and narration. A Grammy nominee, he has narrated the works of authors such as Bill Gates, Al Franken, O. Henry, and Susan Wilson. As a stage actor, he has performed both in New York and regionally in productions such as Annie and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

Table of Contents

1.	Center and Circumference	13
2.	Vision of Enchantment	28
3.	Ego and Soul	60
4.	Cleansing the Lens	93
5.	Don't Push the River	122
6.	Return to the Sacred	154
	Coda and Conclusion: A Contemplative Seeing of the Doctrine of the Cross	177
	Guide for Reflection	183