Communing With the Sacred: Sightings Along the Trails (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798251461862)

For centuries, while providing guidance for the soul, religions were often the sole guides for the spiritual journeys of many people, offering "trail directions" and dispensing definitive suggestions about what to carry, or not to carry, on their path. In recent decades, however, many people have stepped off of the more familiar "worn paths," and have discovered other pathways that speak to the yearnings of their hearts. Recognizing the presence of the Great Mystery everywhere, Kevin Ryan, in his first two books (Seeing God Everywhere: Living Your Life as a Prayer and Praying All that You Are with All that Is: A Spirituality of Prayer), provided nourishment and counsel for all of those spiritual seekers, through prayerful reflections and self-study. In Communing With the Sacred: Sightings Along the Trails, he shares some of the stories, intensely honest and personal, that have shaped his own journey. A lifelong spiritual seeker and outdoor adventurer, Kevin unfolds the back stories of his most commonplace, yet deeply mystical, rendezvous with the divine. Readers of this book will be intrigued by the landscapes of his experiences, and encouraged to encounter the divine wonders awaiting them, just outside their doors.