Journaling as a Spiritual Practice: Encountering God Through Attentive Writing

by Helen Cepero

Publisher:

IVP

, 2015

Overview

Whether you are a longtime journal keeper or someone who has never kept a journal at all, this book will help you go below the surface of your life with God. It is not about the art of writing, but about how journaling can form us spiritually. Every chapter combines descriptive text, illustrations from journals and the author’s own experience with journaling practices integrated along the way to help you bring your own life and world into sharper focus. God wants to surprise you with the beauty of your own life, growing and alive, filled with movement, light and shadow. This is the book to do just that.

Key Features

• Combines descriptive text, illustrations from journals and the author’s own experience
• Provides journaling guide as a prayer practice.
• Inlcudes particular experiences in the practice of journal-keeping.

Praise for the Print Edition

This is a book which should not be (merely) read. It should be done. Her book is a vast smorgasbord of particular experiences in the practice of journal-keeping, each one inviting the readers to ‘taste and see’ the presence of God in their lives. This book opens up the rich potential in journaling, warns us of the patterns of thinking that threaten to derail this practice and provides the tools to make it a valuable means of pursuing relationship with God.

--Evan B. Howard, author of Praying the Scriptures

The wisdom and guidance of Helen Cepero’s book is irresistible. Using poetry, Scripture and stories, she guides the reader into journaling activities that uncover the presence of God in the writer’s life. Those who are beginning will discover the richness of journaling as a spiritual practice. Those with experience will find new ways to delve into their depths. A wonderful book.

--Rev. Jane E. Vennard, author of A Praying Congregation: The Art of Teaching Spiritual Practice

Cepero’s book eases the reader into the journaling process from the absolute beginning and leads all the way to how to enjoy the fruits of one’s journal. Fresh, frank, and unassuming, Cepero’s text allows readers to see that like many other forms of prayer, journaling can be for anyone. Journaling as a Spiritual Practice is a welcome introduction to spiritual journaling, bringing a sometimes intimidating form of prayer out of the garret and into the light of everyday.

--Monique Keffer, Presence, December 2008

Product Details

• Title: Journaling as a Spiritual Practice: Encountering God Through Attentive Writing
• Author: Helen Cepero
• Publisher: IVP
• Print Publication Date: 2015
• Logos Release Date: 2017
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Spiritual life › Christianity; Spiritual journals › Authorship
• ISBNs: 9780830893928, 9780830835195, 0830835199, 083089392X
• Resource ID: LLS:9780830893928
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-06T20:56:18Z

About Helen Cepero

Helen Cepero (M.Div., North Park Seminary) trains spiritual directors at the C. John Weborg Center for Spiritual Direction at North Park Seminary and is co-program director of the Spiritual Direction Formation Program at the Journey Center in Santa Rosa, California. She is a spiritual director for the Academy for Missional Wisdom, and a consultant with the Transformational Listening Center. She is an adjunct instructor at North Park Theological Seminary and Multnomah School of the Bible. A frequent retreat leader, she is ordained in the Evangelical Covenant Church. She is the author of Journaling as a Spiritual Practice. She and her husband, Max, live in Anchorage, Alaska.