Prayer as Self-offering

ALEXANDER RYRIE

THOSE SEEKING GUIDANCE in deepening, or indeed in beginning, their prayer lives will find help in this book, from someone who has long sought to practise prayer, and also to write about prayer. Sandy Ryrie begins by saying that self-offering is an essential and important aspect of all genuine personal prayer and that it can be seen as encompassing all its elements. This offering of the self is the work of God within, a work in which the person praying participates. It is a process which is not completed in this life, since human beings remain incomplete, not yet fully formed into that which God intends. Readers may find it helpful to regard this book as ‘spiritual reading’ in the traditional sense, taking a portion at a time as nourishment and food for thought, mediation and prayer.

SANDY RYRIE was until his retirement Rector of St John's Episcopal Church, Jedburgh, in the Scottish Borders. He is the author of the SLG Press pamphlet Prayer of the Heart & Prayer in the Night, of two books on contemplative prayer, Silent Waiting and Wonderful Exchange, and of one on the Psalms.

Fairacres Publication 152

ISBN- 978-0-7283-0171-9

Price £1.50

This publication belongs in the series Prayer