The Awakened Heart: Opening Yourself to the Love you Need
Posted by tom | Sep 4, 2011
I sleep, but my heart is awake. -- The Song of Songs 5:2
As you may have noticed I've started posts for SF723: Christian Spiritual Direction with Sacred Companions off the shelf and in the reader's hand (8/25/2011). Another reading for SF723 is The Awakened Heart: Opening Yourself to the Love you Need (Gerald G. May, M.D. HarperCollins. 1991). A quick internet search brought up an interview of May (a psychiatrist, author, and spiritual counselor), regarding his seventh book, see http://www.csec.org/csec/sermon/may_3513.htm.
According to the interview, May found The Awakened Heart difficult to write because material on practicing the presence of love (influenced by Brother Lawrence's Practicing the Presence of God) kept flowing. I can't wait to read how he addresses the cultural conflict between efficiency and love and how the parents love of their children informs a household's understanding of God.
Pray for Theresa and myself that we may truly love our children and not demand production (at our local assembly, home, school, athletic field/gym, music hall . . .).
