[Salvation]

This is the thread/series I promised. It will be posted weekdays, but not on Sundays.

Five-hundred years of prayer offered by Thomas a Kempis. Copies are available in both paperback and hardback. It includes four separate books and the daily reflections which are anywhere from one paragraph to a couple pages long.

[Salvation]

The Religion Moderator gave me permission to copy the rules from the Chambers' thread (with a few alterations) which I think are applicable. Thank you to the RM!

Come to these threads as you are; leave with what you have discovered.

Absolutely no flaming! These daily threads are intended to be devotional in nature. If a particular day's offering says nothing to you, please just go on and wait for the next day. Consider these threads a DMZ of sorts, a place where a perpetual truce is in effect and a place where all other arguments and disagreements from other times and places are left behind.

I can attest from personal experience (Salvation's)  that reading from Imitation of Christ daily will almost certainly change - not one's faith - but one's perspective of his/her own faith, and open up new vistas in your spiritual life. If - when - this happens to a reader of these threads, and they choose to share what has happened within them - we are treading on hallowed ground. Be respectful.

- Religion Moderator

Come to these threads as you are; leave with what you have discovered.

Absolutely no flaming! These daily threads are intended to be devotional in nature. If a particular day's offering says nothing to you, please just go on and wait for the next day. Consider these threads a DMZ of sorts, a place where a perpetual truce is in effect and a place where all other arguments and disagreements from other times and places are left behind.

I can attest from personal experience (Salvation's)  that reading from Imitation of Christ daily will almost certainly change - not one's faith - but one's perspective of his/her own faith, and open up new vistas in your spiritual life. If - when - this happens to a reader of these threads, and they choose to share what has happened within them - we are treading on hallowed ground. Be respectful.

- Religion Moderator

[Nihil Obstat]

looking forward to this series

[BipolarBob]

bookmark for later

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I just got through reading it. Excellent book.

I believe it was John Wesley who said it was one of the most influential books in his life.

[blue-duncan]

If you have a ping list for this please add me to it. I have used The Imitation many times over the years as part of my daily devotions.

[Norman Bates]

Great, great book. A deeply profound Christian treatise.

[Wage Slave]

I’ve never read this. I’ll be one of your daily readers. Thanks for your time and effort.