Awakening To Sacred Presence

The Way of Wholeness and Holiness

Doreen D Kostynuik

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FriesenPress
24 November 2023

Memoirs; Religious life & practice; Mind, Body, Spirit: thought & practice

"""We are born into the magnificent invitation to become who and what we are,"" writes Doreen D. Kostynuik. From a tumultuous childhood, to nursing school, to the awakening and arrival into her spiritual calling, this book reflects the author's lifelong love of reading, writing, praying, conversing, and journeying toward wisdom.

Lucidly and beautifully written, Awakening to Sacred Presence weaves a personal and spiritual narrative from the author's eighty years, living part-time as a Byzantine hermit and working as a spiritual director, community leader, and therapist. Within these pages lies the gentle and humble invitation to readers to awaken to Sacred Presence around and within them, to claim and exercise their own wisdom, and actualize their gifts as offerings to the world. Alongside poetry, prayer, journal entries, storytelling, and personal anecdotes, Kostynuik provides exercises and insight to develop psychic muscles: trusting inner knowing, embracing aloneness, moving through grief, and extending forgiveness, among other lessons.

At the heart of this book is a firm grounding in-and insistence on-being present to life and its teachings and being available to possibility. The deceptively simple lessons of Awakening to Sacred Presence encourage readers to arrive in the here and now, to surrender to the revelation of possibility, and risk knowing themselves, all that they are, no more and no less."

By: Doreen D Kostynuik
Imprint: FriesenPress
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 9mm
Weight: 240g
ISBN: 9781039189744
ISBN 10: 1039189741
Pages: 174
Publication Date: 24 November 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Doreen D. Kostynuik is a writer, educator, therapist, and spiritual director to individuals, religious congregations, and parishes. She holds a Master of Education in Counselling and is an enduring student of psychology, philosophy, cosmology, and theology. Her published works include a poetry collection, Songs of the Desert (1979), and three musical albums: I Wish You Rainbows, Doreen Kostynuik, and Moments of Grace. Doreen enjoys travel, photography, birdwatching, people watching, world news, mystery novels, and journaling. She lives in New Westminster, British Columbia with a community member with whom she shares a house of welcome and ministry.