Learning To Hear With The Heart: Meditations For Discerning God's Will

a 967165 FM qxd 2/27/03 11:24 AM Page iii Le a r n i n g to Hear with the Heart Meditations for Discerning God’s Will g Debra K. Farrington a 967165 FM qxd 2/27/03 11:24 AM Page iii a 967165 FM qxd 2/27/03 11:24 AM Page i a 967165 FM qxd 2/27/03 11:24 AM Page ii Other books by Debra K. Farrington Hearing with the Heart: A Gentle Guide for Discerning God’s Will for Your Life g Living Faith Day by Day: How the Sacred Rules of Monastic Traditions Can Help You Live Spiritually in the Modern World One Like Jesus: Conversations on the Single Life Romancing the Holy: Gateways to Christian Experience Unceasing Prayer: A Beginner’s Guide a 967165 FM qxd 2/27/03 11:24 AM Page iii Le a r n i n g to Hear with the Heart Meditations for Discerning God’s Will g Debra K. Farrington a 967165 FM qxd 2/27/03 4:10 PM Page iv Copyright © 2003 by Debra K. Farrington All rights reserved. Published by Jossey-Bass A Wiley Imprint 989 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94103-1741 www.josseybass.com No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise, except as permitted under Section 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc., 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, 978-750-8400, fax 978-646-8700, or on the web at www.copyright.com. Requests to the Publisher for permission should be addressed to the Permissions Department, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030, 201-748-6011, fax 201-748-6008, e-mail: [email protected] Jossey-Bass books and products are available through most bookstores. To contact JosseyBass directly call our Customer Care Department within the U.S. at 800-956-7739, outside the U.S. at 317-572-3986 or fax 317-572-4002. Jossey-Bass also publishes its books in a variety of electronic formats. Some content that appears in print may not be available in electronic books. Unless otherwise noted, Bible quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Excerpt from PRAYERS FROM THE HEART by RICHARD J. FOSTER. Copyright © 1994 by Richard J. Foster. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers Inc. “Midwife of Our