Barry is a very well known, highly respected and extremely experienced spiritual director, retreat director, and psychologist who writes this text out of that wealth of theoretical knowledge and pastoral experience for spiritual directors and primarily for directors of Ignatian retreats. The title affirms a faith that God deals directly with souls and the director's task is merely to facilitate that relationship, assisting retreatants to clarify their desires, be open to God's self-revelation, and understand their unique role in the divine plan using imaginative prayer, feeling, discernment and previous touchstone religious experience. These themes and more are developed in this masterful text that would be profitable not just to spiritual directors but to anyone whose spirituality is Ignatian or based in the Spiritual Exercises.

THE BEST BOOK I EVER READ!! EVERYONE MUST READ THIS!!

The history of environmental law in this country is one of media by media legislation where pollution is chased from air to water to land rather than cleaned-up. In this book Celia Campbell-Mohn et.al. revolutionizes the way in which environmental law is organized and analyzed. Instead of breaking the environment into sectors as resources (species, minerals) and sinks for pollution (air, land, water, groundwater) she creates a new approach, the Resources To Recovery model, which divides the human interfaces with nature into sectors (extraction, manufacture and disposal) and treats nature comprehensivly within each interface. This book is totally unlike any other effort to understand and organize our legal relationship to the environment and it deserves attention. If you have time to read but one book in the area of environmental law and policy this year, this should be it......

This Book is about a king who lives in a castle. He has a baker called Adrian.The King always eats eggs. Adrian makes the king chicken eggs,goose eggs,duck eggs.Then he shouts More More More! The Next day he read in his Newspaper that a dodos egg was spotted on an island.So he told Adrian to prepare the boat.To get to The island.

Jesus knew life hurts, and he healed. We, too, live God's dream by trusting God in prayer and becoming good friends with Christ. We end up being more sensitive talkers and listeners and knowing what to do for ourselves and the world. FINDING GOD IN ALL THINGS is written for the increasing numbers who practice the spiritual exercises of St Ignatius. Author William Barry ends the chapters with excellent questions to guide all readers, and his book links comfortably with Claire Cloninger's A PLACE CALLED SPIRITUALITY, Alan Jones' JOURNEY INTO CHRIST, Max Lucado's NO WONDER THEY CALL HIM THE SAVIOR, and M. Basil Pennington's DAILY WE FOLLOW HIM.

This book is about having an attitude of prayer, about broadening our understanding of the forms prayer takes so that we no longer separate prayer as a distinct activity but incorporate prayer as life lived in communication with God. As Kathy Coffey writes, "Bringing God into daily life means a constant movement back and forth between the action and the reflection." We respond to God's initiative, His activity in our lives, Ms. Coffey suggests, by immersing ourselves in the awareness that what is human is permeated by the divine. She uses short chapters to delineate how this may be accomplished. Using examples from her own life she takes ordinary experiences and reworks them into "material for meditation." At the conclusion of each chapter she poses questions for reflection. For example, in her section called "Transforming Time" she substitutes for the Liturgy of the Hours spontaneous prayer at each interval of the day and ends with these questions: "Have you ever tried to punctuate the day with prayer? How did it go? Choose a Psalm and expand an experience of morning, noon, afternoon, evening, or night into a meditation." I usually don't like such exercises, but I found these to be helpful in considering my reactions to her ideas. A very appealing book, easy to read in short snatches of time, and inspiring in the truest sense of the word--breathing new life into prayer.

I first read this story several years ago and over time, it has remained vividly in my memory. I can recall scenes and dialogues and picture the images painted by Ms. Williams' words in my mind. Katie's story draws you in before you realize it and you are swept into the mountain country of Arizona in the Old West, struggling along side an orphaned family. Ms. Williams brings the era and the people alive, touching fiction with history. Almost all the characters, especially Katie and Bill, offer something of interest to the reader - you get the sense that each has his or her own story. "Home Mountain" is a sweet story (a bit unrealistic), a historical romance without a doubt, but something about it lingers. It is a tale of the strength of spirit, of family and of love and if you enjoy historical stories, it is worth a read.

how to avoid breaking my ankle--which I did! The guide, like all Lonely Planet publications I've used to date, is ecellent.

My goodness! I don't think you could ask for a more extraordinarily effective and inspiring rebuttal to the clap-trap about patriotism being bantered about by the current administration and the media.

This book contains maybe the best definition of an authentic patriotism that I have ever read. All three essays are beautiful, passionate, and powerful in completely different ways.

If you want to know what being an American is all about, please read this book!

Father Barry succintly describes prayer as a personal relationship with God. This in fact is the focus of Part I of "Paying Attention to God."

As we progress through the chapters, we discover the various aspects involved in developing our own relationship with our Creator. It is an eye opening experience.

Upon completion of his explaination of the variuos stages, he proceeds to correlate prayer with personal descernmnet, then deals with issues of communal discernment and finally death and ressurection.

At each of the stages there are explainations, which can be applied to our own prayer lives.

Father Barry assists us as we learn more about the centralitly of God in our prayer and how it applies to our lives.