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Perhaps you've been missing out. God has given us five senses and a brain with two sides. Yet we often approach God in one way only: through words that are analyzed and processed logically in our left brain. The right brain, however, is the creative, intuitive center--the place that connects most to our seeing, smelling, touching, tasting and hearing, and that roots experiences in our hearts in transforming ways.In Awaken Your Senses, longtime ministers Beth Booram and Brent Bill invite you to engage your right brain in your faith through sensory spiritual practices that position your heart for divine encounter. Readings and a variety of exercises that utilize your whole body lead you to experience God in new ways by

tasting chocolate, words, matzoh, Scripture, forgiveness seeing the moon, wisdom, art, glory, your best self touching others, stones, prayers, rubble, Jesus hearing silence, music, pain, footsteps, the Spirit, the news smelling gardenias, life, salty air, home, healing oil, coffee

Teaching you to pay attention in love to your surroundings, Booram and Bill will help you open your eyes and ears and nose to a sensuous faith--one in which God can be experienced each day as we live and move and have our being.So whether you're weary, stuck, struggling, growing or on information-overload, the exercises and reflections offered here can bring refreshment--a cold drink of water, a gentle breeze--to your soul. Come experience God with all of who you are, and discover more of who he is.

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• Introduction
• Part 1 Taste Art Reflection on Tasting
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Tasting Forgiveness
• 3 Keeping Kosher
• 4 Cravings
• 5 Spiritual Smorgasbord
• 6 Tasting Words
• Part 2 See
• Art Reflection on Seeing
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Creaturely Insight
• 3 Reframe and Refocus
• 4 Reflecting Glory
• 5 Going Off Grid
• 6 I See the Moon
• Part 3 Touch
• Art Reflection on Touching
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Textures
• 3 A Pile of Stones
• 4 Touching Absence
• 5 Feeling Your Prayers
• 6 Touching Jesus
• Part 4 Hear
• Art Reflection on Hearing
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Soundtrack
• 3 Footsteps
• 4 All the News
• 5 Recurring Themes
• 6 Dinner Conversation
• Part 5 Smell
• Art Reflection on Smelling
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Smells Like . . . Worship
• 3 Hospitals
• 4 Sea Salt and Midwest Mulberries
• 5 Organic Sweat
• 6 Wake Up and Smell the Communion
• Conclusion: Rhythms that Ground Us
• Sensory Exercises: Additional Activities for Practicing a Sensuous Faith Resources for Awakening Your Senses
• Notes
• Permissions
• Acknowledgements
• Connecting with Authors

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Publishers Weekly Review

Modeling the best Sunday School teachers, Bill (Sacred Compass) and Booram (The Wide Open Spaces of God) get close to God via the five senses. The journey could so easily have been a skip instead of a sail; however, they truly manifest the book's purpose: "to help more of you experience more of God." The two ministers and workshop leaders accomplish this so well with natural sweetness from the inside, not with treacle glopped on top. Starting with the cover illustrations-a rose, a bird singing treble, threatening thorns, and a bitten pear, each image superimposing on another-the book divides naturally into five parts. Each chapter begins with questions based onpencil drawings by artist Marcy Jean Stacey. Within each chapter, the authors alternate essays, their voices nearly indistinguishable except for Bill's wittier bits; they touch on the personal, such as Booram's sacred hospital smells. Each chapter includes spiritual exercises. The two cite the Bible's raising up of the five senses, augmented with quotes from many sensate Christians. It adds up to a deeply pleasing book. (Feb.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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Brent Bill is a writer, retreat leader and Quaker minister. He's the author and coauthor of many books, including Awaken Your Senses, Sacred Compass: The Way of Spiritual Discernment, Holy Silence: The Gift of Quaker Spirituality, Mind the Light: Learning to See with Spiritual Eyes, Holy Places: Matching Sacred Space with Mission and Message, and Imagination and Spirit: A Contemporary Quaker Reader. In addition, he is the author of more than one hundred short stories, nonfiction articles and the popular blog Holy Ordinary. Bill is a graduate of Wilmington College and the Earlham School of Religion. He has been a local church pastor, denominational executive, seminary faculty member and go-cart track operator.He lives with his wife on Ploughshares Farm, fifty acres of Indiana farmland that is being reclaimed for native hardwood forests and warm season prairie grasses.

Beth A. Booram is the cofounder and director of Fall Creek Abbey, an urban retreat center in Indianapolis, where she and her husband David lead The School of Spiritual Direction and offer individual and group spiritual direction. She is the coauthor of Awaken Your Senses and the author of several books including Starting Something New .