Prayer for Beginners: By Peter Kreeft

Peter Kreeft, author, says in the introduction to this book that it "could have been titled 'Prayer for Dummies,' prayer for people who are not very good at praying, people who find it hard to pray, not people who find it easy--in other words, people like me. And it is also 'prayer for Marthas,' not for Marys: for people with little time to pray, busy people who keep finding excuses not to pray--in other words, people like me."

If this description seems to fit people like YOU, you will benefit from reading this excellent little book. Kreeft reminds the reader, right in the first paragraph of Chapter One, that "Praying is more important than eating because your soul is more important than your body. You will get a new body after death, in the resurrection at the end of the world. But you will not get a new soul; you will only purify and sanctify your old one, because you are your soul. The 'you' that will get a new body is your soul."

If this does not whet your appetite for this book, here is a summary of Chapter Two: Motives

·         Prayer is a response to God’s divine invitation. God yearns and longs for us to pray.

·         We pray, not to change God’s mind; rather, to let God change our own.

·         God is God. Absolute Reality. Infinite Perfection. Prayer is the most realistic thing in the world to do. We are one day closer to Heaven than we ever were before. This is absolute reality and God’s infinite and uncompromising love will not leave us alone until we learn to pray, as prayer is “dress rehearsal” for Heaven.

·         There is nothing in the world sweeter and more delightful than a continual conversation with God.

·         To know anyone, you must not just know about him, you must know him. To pray is to know God. One moment of weak prayer will bring one closer to God than all of the books of theology in the world.

·         We must pray to grow as Infinite Love cannot settle for less than the greatest joy of the beloved.

·         Prayer is our first step in becoming saints. The second step is charity, a life of love, the ecstasy of giving ourselves away over and over again forever, as each of the persons of the Trinity do. But this is prayer too, or the extension of prayer. This is practicing the presence of God in action.

Feed your soul and your prayer life with this book.

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