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Joyful Spirit Bubbling - Print.

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Joyful Spirit Bubbling: Faith and Spirit Through the Seasons

Bronwyn Angela White

Immerse yourself in Joyful Spirit Bubbling, a beautifully crafted collection of poems, prayers, and reflections that guide you through the spiritual rhythms of Aotearoa New Zealand’s seasons, perfect for worship leaders and anyone seeking divine inspiration.

This book:

  • Guides you through the spiritual rhythms of Aotearoa New Zealand’s seasons, enriching your under-standing of faith throughout the year.
  • Provides ready-to-use resources written specifically for worship, making it an ideal tool for lay and ordained worship leaders.
  • Offers interactive litanies that encourage congregational participation, fostering a deeper sense of com-munity during services.
  • Provides diverse poems and prayers that resonate with various spiritual themes, allowing for individual contemplation and enjoyment.
  • Celebrates the sacred in the everyday, helping you find meaning and inspiration in ordinary moments of life.
  • Reflects on significant events and themes relevant to Aotearoa New Zealand, making it culturally relevant and relatable for local communities.
  • Supports progressive and liberal faith communities by providing resources that align with their values and beliefs, promoting inclusivity and compassion.

Features

  • Seasonally Organised: Follows the calendar year from summer through spring, incorporating Ordinary Time.
  • Includes interactive litanies and responsive readings designed for congregational participation.
  • A diverse collection of poems and prayers appealing to various spiritual practices.
  • Essays and reflections from the author’s academic studies for deeper insights.
  • Thought-Provoking Themes: Explores justice, peace, and the divine in everyday life.

Published: 2024
Language: English
Words: 18,879
B/W text, 76pp, 6″ x 9″
ISBN 9781991027597 

[4 in stock 25 Nov 2024]

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About the book

Joyful Spirit Bubbling invites readers into a rich tapestry of spiritual reflection that resonates with the beauty of Aotearoa New Zealand’s changing seasons.

Starting with the warmth of summer and moving through autumn, winter, and the hopeful rebirth of spring, Bronwyn Angela White’s collection encompasses poems, prayers, and reflections crafted for communal worship and individual contemplation.

Designed primarily for progressive and liberal faith communities, these resources enrich worship experiences, offering interactive litanies that engage both leaders and congregants.

The author masterfully intertwines the sacred with the everyday, encouraging readers to find the divine in ordinary moments and fostering a sense of connection among diverse spiritual traditions.

In addition to seasonal themes, the book includes writings for Ordinary Time, ensuring a continuous journey of faith and reflection. Each piece is thoughtfully crafted to inspire, uplift, and challenge readers to embody compassion, justice, and hospitality in their lives.

Perfect for clergy, lay leaders, and anyone seeking spiritual nourishment, Joyful Spirit Bubbling is a treasure trove of resources that will deepen your faith journey and enhance your worship services.

Praise for Bronwyn's writing

 “Bronwyn has the creativity, imagination, and power to have us sense the sacred in the ordinary… Bronwyn’s words are more powerful and real than a thousand theological treatises on incarnation.”  Rev Dr Margaret Mayman



“…poetry somehow rises above our ordinary, prosaic, factual, doctrinal essays and books and can lift our spirits, and here Bronwyn has offered to us some of her creations in this respect that we can share.” Emeritus Prof Rev Sir Lloyd Geering

 

About the Author

Born in Aotearoa New Zealand, Bronwyn's writing celebrates inclusiveness and social justice; affirms spirit and faith in postmodern, progressive and post-Christian life. Her prayers, affirmations, reflections, and blessings are in inclusive language, with an emphasis on "faith not belief" and social justice.

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Table of Contents

  • About the words

Summer in Aotearoa

  • Blessings that blossom in our lives
  • Drama of our lives
  • Gifts of other faiths and cultures
  • Joyful Spirit bubbling

Autumn in Aotearoa

  • An evolving response
  • Your stories tell our lives
  • Autumn Benediction
  • Celebrating mothers and women of mana

Winter in Aotearoa

  • Journeys, homecoming, manaakitanga
  • Blessing for Winter Meal
  • Prayers for Family
  • Raindrops pizzicato
  • Prayers on Father’s Day

Spring in Aotearoa

  • Aotearoa Spring—prayers of pavement and city square
  • We are blessed with enough
  • Botanical Gardens prayers
  • With the Spring comes the greening
  • Sometimes Spring
  • Vigour of rain and passion of sunshine

Seasons in one day

Reflections and essays

  • Allies or Traitors
  • Blessed be the work of our hands
  • Feast in the wilderness (i): Next year in Jerusalem
  • Feast in the wilderness (ii): The Promised Land
  • Loving Boldly—What makes a leader?
  • Milk from the breast of Christ
  • Put on your glad rags and break the rules!
  • Sacred stones and sites—reflection and liturgy
  • Voices of the deep

Affirmations, prayers, blessings

  • Blessings of Greenness
  • Affirmation of Faith (ii): Come, let us walk the road
  • Litany for departing
  • Walls, Gates and Tables
  • Trees blessing

Glossary and References

  • Glossary
  • Bibliography and sources
  • Thanks
  • Also by Bronwyn Angela White

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