Hidden Mountain Secret Garden
Drawing from the Holy Bible as well as a selection from the great saints and mystics, the book explores how the presence of Christ is the living fountain of Christian prayer. Christians offer their hearts to the Lord in response to the very objective but very personal way the Lord has disclosed His love for us. The Lord’s mysterious presence invites us into an ongoing conversation about the whole of our lives and at the same time His dynamic presence provides the power to live in ways we could not have imagined were possible without Him.
To follow the way shown to us by the Risen Lord, no method or technique can replace faith guided by love, a living faith which is ours for the asking, a bold faith that steps out in confidence even in the shadow of death. Such faith sees what is hidden and secret: Jesus Christ is never absent in our struggles, no matter how dark the doubt, or the fear, or the trial, or the temptation engulfing us. He is with us in all our efforts to love, and especially in our efforts to find Him, to cleave to Him, to share Him with others.
This book is especially for those whose prayer is a search for the loving eyes of One who has conquered death. This kind of prayer beholds the wonder of Christ’s living but hidden presence lifted up in one’s highest thoughts as well as in one’s deepest longings. The ecstasy of this kind of prayer extends beyond even the vast unexplored frontiers of the human heart and opens to an immensity of such excessive mercy that all else is forgotten — and only love remains.
The whole world needs this love: it is the secret garden, the hidden mountain, the inexhaustible riches only prayer knows and only prayer can make known. For those great souls who are faithful in opening their hearts to the Lord, every Christian owes you a debt of gratitude. For those who want to join them, I hope this work encourages you along the way.
Available at Amazon.com as an ebook (click here), a paperback edition will be available here soon. You may also order a paperback edition at createspace.com. This work has been published by Discerning Hearts in Omaha, Nebraska.
Congratulations!!! I so look forward to reading your book! I have already ordered it from Amazon, the print and Kindle edition. (I had to have one to share.)
May God bless all those who read it and lead them closer to His mercy and love, and may many people find it and read it.