Water My Soul: Cultivating the Interior Life

Using gardening imagery and language, popular author and speaker Luci Shaw (Horizons: Exploring God's Creation, etc.) advises readers how to deepen their relationship with God. Shaw contends that God is a kind of gardener who, over time and with much patience, works in the muck and mud of our souls to bring forth the beauty of our inner selves. Each chapter takes a single aspect of gardening, such as planting or watering seeds, and extends it as a metaphor of an individual's relationship with God. Shaw encourages prayer, Bible reading and worship as ways of nurturing the growth of the spirit. Herself a gardener as well as a poet, Shaw carries out her exercise in spiritual exhortation with a gentle grace. (Jan.)