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    Digging for God: Praying with Poetry
    Digging for God: Praying with Poetry
    Digging for God: Praying with Poetry
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    Digging for God: Praying with Poetry

    By Anne Higgins and Maureen Beitman

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    Designed for daily use as well as for retreats, Digging for God is an invitation to linger in the gardens of the Bible and the gardens of the heart. Using the passages concerning five biblical gardens, and then her own experiences distilled into poetry, Higgins provides meditative ideas and questions as springboards to prayer. For all who have labored and loved their backyard gardens, Higgins' poems will nudge memories. For all who are, as May Sarton said, "hopeful gardeners of the spirit," this volume offers fertile ground for prayer and reflection.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherResource Publications
    Release dateAug 5, 2010
    ISBN9781498272902
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      Digging for God - Anne Higgins

      Digging for God

      Praying with Poetry

      Anne M. Higgins

      Illustrations by Maureen Beitman
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      Digging for God

      Praying with Poetry

      Copyright © 2010 Anne M. Higgins. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical publications or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher. Write: Permissions, Wipf and Stock Publishers, 199 W. 8th Ave., Suite 3, Eugene, OR 97401.

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      199 W. 8th Ave., Suite 3

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      ISBN 13: 978-1-60899-807-4

      EISBN 13: 978-1-4982-7290-2

      Manufactured in the U.S.A.

      All scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New American version, NAB, copyright 1971, by Catholic Publishers, Inc.

      Table of Contents

      Title Page

      Acknowledgments

      Eden — Genesis 2:8–9

      Tribute Poem

      Reflection Question

      Second Antiphon in the Style of Hildegard

      Reflection Question

      Sister Anne Robb Writes a Letter

      Reflection Question

      Summer Morning in the kitchen at Seton House

      Reflection Question

      In Those Days

      Reflection Question

      Wintering on St. Mary’s Mountain

      Reflection Question

      Nearsighted

      Reflection Question

      Springtime in Antioch

      Reflection Question

      Go Out to the Woods and Feel the Tree Bark

      Reflection Question

      Solomon — Songs 8:13

      The Rose in the Chapel

      Reflection Question

      Sitz im Leben

      Reflection Question

      Voice Mail

      Reflection Question

      The Pink Trees of Emmitsburg

      Reflection Question

      Elizabeth Seton: Light and Grace

      Reflection Question

      The Roofless Church, New Harmony, Indiana

      Reflection Question

      Sacre Coeur, Paris

      Reflection Question

      At the Seton High School Homecoming, 1975

      Reflection Question

      Rain on the Hedgerows

      Reflection Question

      Garden Dweller

      Reflection Question

      Gethsemane — John 18:1–2

      Vineyard Stories

      Reflection Question

      Junk Drawer

      Reflection Question

      My Pattern is my Prison

      Reflection Question

      The Snake Plant

      Reflection Question

      The Rich Young Man

      Reflection Question

      Gift Giving Time

      Reflection Question

      Thomas Merton Checks on His trees.

      Reflection Question

      The Presence of Crows, Halifax

      Reflection Question

      Angry Enough to Die

      Reflection Question

      Golgotha — John 19:41, 20:15

      Digging for God

      Reflection Question

      Japanese Beetles

      Reflection Question

      Mother Seton’s Bible

      Reflection

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