Journey to the Live Heart: Four Invitations to Contemplative Living

“Once again, Amy Frykholm invites readers to steep in the mystery of God. In Journey to the Wild Heart, Frykholm offers trustworthy guidance on stepping into a contemplative way that meets the unpredictable dimensions of the everyday with poetry, wisdom, and boldness.” – Paul Swanson, Director of Curriculum at Center for Action and Contemplation

A treasure hunt through our own inner lives

 Offering four invitations to the spiritual journey—reflect, behold, bewilder, and discern—this book helps us access resources when we meet difficult situations or feel stuck in old habits of being and thinking that fail to lead us deeper into the presence of God and an understanding of ourselves. The spiritual exercises in this book form a series of contemplative practices guiding readers to break these habits and find renewal for the inner journey. 

A guide for set-apart times, retreat, or pilgrimage, The Four Invitations offer a lens for meeting a new interior or exterior landscapes with questions and invitations meant to help readers open up into new understandings in/for the spiritual life.

Written by the author of Julian of Norwich: A Spiritual Biography and Wild Woman: A Footnote, the Desert, and My Quest for an Elusive Saint, Amy Frykholm is beloved for combining the scholar’s acuity with a mystical heart, creating books that are their own spiritual journeys and interior explorations.

Amy Frykholm is an American writer, podcaster, and journalist whose four books of non-fiction have covered the territory of American religion from apocalyptists to saints. She is an award winning writer and contributing writer for the magazine The Christian Century, and she appears frequently on television and radio programs as an expert in American religion. She has a PhD in Literature from Duke University and lives in Colorado with her husband.

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