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Seven Stars, A Quirky Horse, is a heart grabbing story about a horse born under the worst of conditions. Her mother died in her birthing. Unwanted, she is given away to a family with two little girls who love her and convince the young horse that she is a beautiful race horse. Unfortunately, the girls' family has to move away and Seven Stars is passed from rancher to rancher as a work horse that just will not work. Finally, she ends up sold at auction. Seven Stars will thrill you. You will not be able to put the book down until you find out what happens after Seven Stars enters herself in...

Seven Stars, A Quirky Horse, is a heart grabbing story about a horse born under the worst of conditions. Her mother died in her birthing. Unwanted, she is given away to a family with two little girls who love her and convince the young horse that she is a beautiful race horse. Unfortunately, the girls? family has to move away and Seven Stars is passed from rancher to rancher as a work horse that just will not work. Finally, she ends up sold at auction. Seven Stars will thrill you. You will not be able to put the book down until you find out what happens after Seven Stars enters herself in...

After fifty years of monastic life, prayer, and spiritual direction, Meg Funk knows what it means to listen with the ear of one's heart to the Holy Spirit. In"Discernment Matters," she shares what she has learned. This book is a resource for those who want to learn and practice discernment as taught by the early monastic tradition. It includes an accessible summary of teachings about discernment from monastic traditions of late antiquity, consideration of important tools for making decisions today, and practical examples from the lives of St. Benedict and St. Patrick, as well as from the...

Lectio divina is a way of praying by sustained immersion into a revelatory text. While Scripture is the classic place of encounter with God, the text could also be the book of life or the book of nature.

In Lectio Matters, respected spiritual guide Meg Funk accompanies the reader in exploring the various levels of lectio divina as taught by the ancient church writers and by sharing her own long experience. By means of this wisdom both ancient and new, lectio divina can become our burning bush, a real encounter with the living God, in which we take off our...

Cassian taught that real intimacy with God in prayer demands renouncing one's former way of life, the thoughts belonging to that former way of life, and one's very idea of God. In Thoughts Matter, Mary Margaret Funk focuses on the second of these: renouncing the thoughts belonging to one's former way of life. Her eight chapters focus on different "thoughts"--food, sex, anger, dejection, acedia (profound weariness of the soul), vainglory (taking credit for good actions), and pride.

Funk explains well how failure to control these thoughts can undermine our spiritual...