|  Unceasing Prayer: A Beginner’s Guide
In the Bible, St. Paul challenges Christians to “pray unceasingly.” Is it really possible, in today’s busy, complicated world, to pray all the time? In this book Debra Farrington demonstrates that it is as simple, and as difficult, as recalling God’s presence often throughout the day, by connecting Scripture with daily activities. A shower, then, becomes an opportunity to ask God to cleanse our hearts, and the commute to work provides time to ask God’s guidance for the day ahead.
Whether you pray regularly or are just beginning, Unceasing Prayer will serve as a gentle and realistic guide to finding God everywhere and always.
From the foreword to Unceasing Prayer:
“Farrington’s unpretentious call to the constant business of sanctifying the quotidian is, in other words, as disruptive a proposition as it is an historic and apostolic one. I urge you to enter it with caution, therefore, but also with a greedy hope; for the fare Farrington sets before us in this small volume, while it is the substance and means of St. Paul’s admonition, is also and by the same token, a foretaste of Heaven’s table.” —Phyllis Tickle, author of The Divine Hours
Reviews
“What does it mean to ‘pray unceasingly,’ as Paul encourages Christians to do in the New Testament Book of 1 Thessalonians? In Unceasing Prayer: A Beginner’s Guide, Debra Farrington urges readers to imagine that ‘unceasing prayer’ is more accessible than they might think—that it can, in fact, be accomplished while ‘doing the dishes, feeling the cat, working at your desk, making love, or helping the kids with their homework.’ Farrington offers a book of ‘short Scripture-prayers’ to invite readers to pray and acknowledge God’s presence throughout the day. There are Bible verses for jogging, for taking a shower, for moments of anger, for expressing thankfulness at a happy family gathering. This is, quite simply, a beautiful and elegant book.” —Publishers Weekly
“A wonderful little book on prayer.”—The Living Church “The prayers themselves are wonderful in their simplicity…” —Interim, the publication of the Episcopal Diocese of Missouri “Debra Farrington’s powerful new book reminds me most of the spirituality of St. Francis. The humor, the delight in the ordinary, the freshness and creative inventiveness and above all, the incarnational spirituality—all those Franciscan traits are there—St. Francis taught us to bless water, fire, and down-to-earth adhesives that hold life together. Debra Farrington offers us a pattern for doing this daily, hour by hour. Phyllis Tickle’s foreword is correct in predicting it could be ‘disruptive.’ This book could very well change the texture of anybody’s daily life—much for the better.” —The Episcopal New Yorker
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