Beloved author Deacon Greg Kandra knows all too well what it is to be busy. Drawing from his own experience and those of fellow Catholics and the saints’ lives, Deacon Kandra helps us realize the importance of prayer and offers practical tips for making it a part of each day. Prayer includes regular participation in the sacraments (Mass, Confession) but is also about a constant communication with God and a way to plan our day each morning and evaluate our progress each evening. How is God showing us to spend our time? What can we do to be less busy and make room for God? This book answers these questions.

What if you could live each day with joy and purpose? Join beloved author Deacon Greg Kandra as he uncovers the rich treasury of Scripture and Tradition to discover just how to live an extraordinary life starting today!

"This colllection in the concrete a methodology and even a theology of prayer. Priests and laity will profit enormously from reading it and reflecting on the theology and practicing the method and praying the prayers"....Andrew M. Greeley

Have you become so busy that you feel light-years away from the essence of your own true self and from what really matters? If so, The Busy Persons Guide to Balance and Boundaries was written for you. The first in a series of three, The Busy Persons Guide to Inner Healing and The Busy Persons Guide to Joy and Fulfillment will follow. But getting our feet back under us is where we must begin. This book leads the way by providing a clear, efficient, and effective pathway for establishing boundaries and recovering physical, emotional, and spiritual energy. At the same time, its workbook format guides us easily through a process of improving and deepening relationships, with ourselves, others, and a Higher Consciousness with which we yearn to connect. Based on years of working with individuals, couples, and groups, and expertise in the areas of spirituality, psychology, and recovery principles, the wisdom imparted simply and honestly throughout these pages is nothing short of profound. Betty Hill Crowson has given us a roadmap to recover our true selves at our own pace, empowering us to make the giant leap from human doing to a happier, and infinitely more content, human being.

Pete Greig is a worldwide authority and the face of a generation when it comes to prayer. One of the founders of the 24-7 prayer movement, he has seen, experienced, and chronicled amazing works of God in the world. While you might imagine him to be puffed up, Pete Greig is entirely the opposite. He is enchanting, down-to-earth, friendly, and most of all, very normal–and yet he tells preposterous tales about prayer (and they’re true). He is basically a regular dude who loves to talk with God. How to Pray is written to evoke a passion for prayer in everyone—the committed follower of Jesus as well as the skeptic and the scared. The enormous blessing of How to Pray is that it is accessible, full of surprising stories of answered prayer, and tremendously engaging. The basic idea is that prayer is a conversation between you and God. Pete Greig demystifies and reenchants prayer, helping you to find prayer achievable and enjoyable, and ultimately life-giving and life-changing. How to Pray is designed to be used together with The Prayer Course (a free video curriculum associated with the Alpha course), making it useful for personal and group or church-wide reading.

The urgent need for prayer in today's broken world is clear, but busyness still keeps many of us from finding time to pray. So Bill Hybels offers us his practical, time-tested ideas on slowing down to pray. In this four-session video Bible study based on Hybels's classic book on prayer, Too Busy Not to Pray calls both young and old to make prayer a priority, broadening the vision for what our eternal, powerful God does when his people slow down to pray. In Too Busy Not to Pray, you and your small group will learn: The importance of a consistent time and place for prayer How to organize prayers according to tried-and-true frameworks How to hear the Spirit's promptings To love prayer time Hybels helps you slow down, listen to God, and learn how to respond. As a result, you will grow closer to God and experience the benefits of spending time with him. Sessions include: Why Pray? (15:00) Our Part of the Deal (20:00) When Prayer Feels Hard (19:00) People of Prayer (20:00) This pack contains one guide and one DVD.

Readers will experience the power of having a vibrant life of prayer and relationship with God and discover the creative ideas to weave prayer into the fabric of their day.