Awakening as Holy Mystery
Realizing Christ Heart
- Prayer & Spiritual Formation
- Publisher: Wipf and Stock
- Published: 2025
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Publisher's Description
Christianity is an ancient non-dual spiritual path of awakening. This is not an awakening to God known as a religious object through the lens of belief, hewn into shape through a set of religious doctrines. This awakening begins with falling in love with the heart of Reality--Holy Mystery--and comes to fruition in the realization that the soul is one with the Beloved. Holy Mystery, the soul discovers, is the true "I" of existence. The author invites the reader on a journey--through reflections and explorations, nurtured by worship and prayer. Here the soul might begin to slowly awaken to the truth of what she herself is. This is the gracious path of Jesus' own heart realizing that he and the Beloved are one. Jesus awakens as the Christ. The spiritual path in the Christian tradition is that each person also realizes Christ heart--awakening and knowing not only one's own being as Holy Mystery, but all creation as the unfolding flowering of boundless love. Awakening becomes the source of servanthood and service. Jesus embodies what each is called to realize as the heart's deepest and unceasing longing.
Endorsements (4)
“This book will delight many as the author explores a renewed understanding and language for a deeper intimacy with God and maturity of the soul rooted in Christ. Although language is always limited in its ability to express the ineffable, the author identifies resonances in the wisdom of other traditions and offers expansive expressions in Christian liturgies and prayers. He immerses the reader in our unity with Christ through the language of belovedness. Those seeking that intimacy with God will be drawn into the reflections, prayers, and liturgy, all suffused with belovedness in God. This is profoundly needed in an age of deep uncertainties and anxiety.”
“Through deep contemplative reflections, as well as resources for personal prayer and communal worship, Thew Forrester invites us on a journey beyond dualistic God-language into the possibility of awakening to and as Holy Mystery—a blossoming of our own Christ heart in lives of devotion and service. This book is a gift to the Christian community and to all who desire to know the potential of their own humanness.”
“Kevin Thew Forrester’s exploration of Holy Mystery is a rich, multi-dimensional tapestry of imagery, metaphor, and spiritual wisdom. It is a set of resources full of surprises; the language is playful, exuberant, and earnest. I’m especially grateful that he included evocative open questions alongside the set of reflections; many of these have served me in my journal writing and for deeper awakening to the teachings. I also value the thoughtful language and inclusive invitation in all the creative liturgies for worship. Perhaps what moves me the most in his book are the meaningful prayers offered as resources for faith communities or for solitude practice. Here is a passionate and timely wake up call to entering a mature spiritual life, and I hope this book finds itself in the hands of many. I am glad I am one of them.”
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