Everyday Divine

Many people today are looking for opportunities to bring the spiritual into their everyday lives in non-traditional ways. Their days are so busy they can't imagine how they can fit in time to kneel or sit in prayer on a regular basis. As a result, they fly from one activity to the next at breakneck speed, always looking forward to some nonexistent time in the future when things will slow down long enough to allow them to breathe, center themselves, and pray.

Everyday Divine: A Catholic Guide to Active Spirituality helps busy readers explore different ways to achieve a place of stillness and peace while remaining very much in the world. In fact, the day-to-day activities of life become the pathway to prayer — even the prayer itself. Drawing on Catholic tradition, from ancient monastics to modern-day saints and sages, Everyday Divine looks at how we can adapt these ancient practices for modern times, quoting holy men and women on various methods and offering practical instructions and suggestions to help people put them into practice.

Mary DeTurris Poust is an author, columnist, and blogger who has focused on Catholic issues for almost 30 years. She is the author of The Essential Guide to Catholic Prayer and the Mass and The Complete Idiot's GuideR to the Catholic Catechism. She writes about the spiritual journey at her own blog, "Not Strictly Spiritual," and in her monthly column "Life Lines," which has been published in Catholic New York since 2001. She is co-host of "Guided by Grace," a new cable show for women on Telecare TV.