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\"Castles<\/a>Castles in the Sand<\/em>, Lighthouse Trails’ first novel, is back from press. This book addresses the contemplative prayer (spiritual formation) movement in a fiction setting. The story focuses around an intelligent, searching college girl who comes under the influence of contemplative mysticism through her professor and the college’s spiritual formation program.<\/p>\n

This important and timely book provides college-age readers the information they need to understand the new spirituality they are being introduced to at many of today’s Christian colleges and seminaries. The book will be very helpful to parents and other loved ones who are trying to understand what this pervasive spirituality is all about.<\/p>\n

Book Information: <\/strong>
\nISBN 978-0-9791315-4-7
\nRetail – $12.95
\nSoftbound 224 Pages
\nIllustrated<\/p>\n

For more information, chapter-by-chapter synopsis, or to order, click here.<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Description:<\/strong> When the horse-loving, day-dreaming Tessa Dawson enters a Christian college, she is introduced to the writings of 16th century Teresa of Avila by her spiritual formation professor. Soon Tessa’s life is dramatically affected as she delves into “Christian mysticism.” As she ventures deeper into this form of spirituality, God prepares her concerned grandfather and a mysterious young man as they set out to reach her.<\/p>\n

This “fiction with a message” takes a compelling and thought-provoking look at the true nature behind contemplative spirituality, which has impacted Christian churches, colleges, seminaries, and universities across the globe.<\/p>\n

Two lives are changed forever through spiritual practices they each encounter<\/em><\/strong>
\nlectio divina . . . contemplative prayer . . . visualization . . . centering . . . sacred space . . . desert fathers . . . kundalini . . . labyrinths . . . spiritual formation . . . the silence<\/p>\n

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