A New Beginning
In A New Beginning, David Torkington encourages each of us to take a step back from these everyday pressures and concerns to find space and time to be alone, to reflect on our lives and come to recognise some of the occasions that God has been at work to help us through.
If we persevere, these moments of solitude should start to come naturally at times that we least expect them, and we can begin to encounter the presence of God more deeply than we have ever experienced it before. This, the author tells us, is the call to contemplation.
Prayer is the word used by Catholic tradition to describe what we must do over a whole lifetime to receive this love into our lives.
A New Beginning – A Sideways Look at the Spiritual Life, is a simple step by step guide that details what we must do in our prayer life to receive this love.
This profound spiritual journey must be made in the context of a whole religious way of daily life, of living, thinking and of behaving that makes this possible, hence this book A New Beginning.
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Review: For spiritual writings, there is only one test. It is not whether they sound impressive; style matters, and David Torkington writes with admirable clarity, but this is only a means, and can be used to self-glorifying ends.
Nor is the test whether our hearts are touched. This too matters but emotions are volatile. The only real test is whether what is written makes us love God more.
The test is practical then, not whether we feel we love him more, but whether we lay down the book and consider what we must do.
This book passes the test.’ Sister Wendy Beckett – Hermit. (She was awarded a first class degree with special congratulation, because it received the highest marks ever awarded at Oxford University!)