Spiritual Conversations with Children..., Lacy Finn Borgo
Spiritual Conversations with Children..., Lacy Finn Borgo
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Spiritual Conversations with Children
Listening to God Together

Author: Lacy Finn Borgo

Narrator: Nan McNamara

Unabridged: 4 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/10/2020

Synopsis

We are born into this world with a natural longing to connect to God and other human beings.

When children have a listening companion who hears, acknowledges, and encourages their early experiences with God, it creates a spiritual footprint that shapes their lives. How can we increase our capacity to engage children in spiritual conversations? In this book Lacy Finn Borgo draws on her own experience of practicing spiritual direction with children. She offers an overview of childhood spiritual formation and introduces key skills for engaging conversation—posture, power, and patterns—from a Christ-centered perspective. "When we are fully present and open to another, we will be changed," Borgo writes. "Indeed, as you listen to God with a child, the child will lead you into a fuller experience of God's love and acceptance." In this book you'll find:

● Sample interactive dialogues with children

● Ideas for engaging children with play, art, and movement

● Prayers to use together

Whether you are a parent or grandparent, pastor or spiritual director, you will find this to be a friendly guide into deeper ways of listening.

About Lacy Finn Borgo

Lacy Finn Borgo teaches and provides spiritual direction with adults and children through Renovare, Mercy Center Burlingame, and the Companioning Center. She especially loves meeting with children at Haven House, a transitional facility for families without homes. She holds a doctor of ministry degree in leadership and spiritual formation and a certificate in spiritual direction from Portland Seminary. Borgo is also the author of Spiritual Conversations with Children.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lori on March 02, 2020

Such a beautiful guide for any adult. We must attend to our own spiritual & emotional health so that we can help children in their spiritual formation. This book is practical, insightful, and enjoyable.......more

Goodreads review by Adam on March 18, 2020

Summary: A practical, story filled guide on how to have spiritual conversations with children. I am approaching this with a definite perspective. I am in training to become a spiritual director (for adults), but I also have spent much of my life doing administrative and evaluative work for ministries......more

Goodreads review by Deanna on February 20, 2020

What a lovely book that gives deep value to the ways in which children experience God, and helpful encouragement to the adults who desire to accompany children in these experiences. Lacy's examples of her own work in "Holy Listening" with children help the reader to imagine ways they may engage with......more

Goodreads review by Hanna on January 07, 2023

This book reminded me of what it can look like to have a high view of children and turned many unconsciously absorbed methods/postures of interacting with them I have had upside down. I read it as an Ebook and will probably buy a paper copy to have on my shelf because I have this deep desire to hold......more

Goodreads review by Bethany on June 13, 2023

This book was fascinating and I’m trying to figure out how I can apply it well, with humility and grace, as a parent. The model has been used in children’s ministry and with children in crisis and was a good reminder to me how easy it is for children to engage with God, how God is always at work, an......more

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