JUDY FOY


Companion for "Comfort. A Year of Prayerful Contemplations for Grief"

Further Reading on Contemplative Prayer

Further Reading on Spiritual Discernment
  • "The Discerning Heart" by Wilkie Au and Noreen Cannon Au - explores discernment in everyday life
  • "Hearing with the Heart" by Marilyn Chandler McEntyre - connects discernment with contemplative practice
  • "Inner Compass" by Margaret Silf - provides practical exercises for spiritual discernment
  • "The Gift of Spiritual Intimacy" by Monty Williams - specifically addresses discernment in times of loss
Book References for Sources in Comfort & Purchase Options

Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh Purchase options:

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott Purchase options:

On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Purchase options:

God's Unconditional Love: Healing Our Shame by Wilkie Au and Noreen Cannon Au Purchase options:

Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith by Frederick Buechner Purchase options:

Divine Mercy in My Soul-Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska by Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska Purchase options:

Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott Purchase options:

L'Engle Herself: Reflections on a Writing Life by Madeleine L'Engle Purchase options:

Hope Heals: A True Story of Overwhelming Loss and an Overcoming Love by Katherine and Jay Wolf Purchase options:

When God Doesn't Answer Your Prayer by Jerry Sittser Purchase options:

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese Purchase options:

Prayer: Does it Make Any Difference? by Philip Yancey Purchase options:

The Woman of Andros by Thornton Wilder Purchase options:

A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis Purchase options:

The Cloister Walk by Kathleen Norris Purchase options:

Turn My Mourning into Dancing: Moving Through Hard Times with Hope by Henri Nouwen Purchase options:

Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke Purchase options:

Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging by Brennan Manning Purchase options:

A Letter of Consolation by Henri Nouwen Purchase options:

The Poems of Emily Dickinson edited by R. W. Franklin Purchase options:

Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious by C.G. Jung Purchase options:

On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and David Kessler Purchase options:

Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott Purchase options:

The Life Of William Blake, Pictor Ignotus V2: With Selections From His Poems And Other Writings Purchase options:

Biblical References

Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

Sacred Sources 

Free and searchable Bibles with the capacity to select Bible version, e.g., BibleGateway and Biblehub.

Open-access sacred art is available throughout the web, conveniently compiled by Duke University.

Sacred music is widely available on the internet, radio stations, and CD. Some compiled sacred music to start with is this YouTube video.

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