Compass Points: Meeting God Every Day at Every Turn

by Margaret Silf

You can find God as easily at the car wash as you can at the cathedral. For many Christians, it’s relatively effortless to experience God in special places, such as a church or a mountaintop; or at special times, such as the birth of a child or the wedding of two people deeply in love. But it can be quite a challenge for us to meet God in the most ordinary of places, in the most ordinary of times. God in the magnificent? No problem. God in the mundane? That’s a bit harder.
In Compass Points , best-selling Ignatian spirituality author and beloved speaker Margaret Silf leads us to discover God beyond the grandiose and to find the Divine in our daily lives. Through short but powerful meditations and vignettes based on her own authentic spiritual experiences, Silf reveals the interior process of Ignatian mindfulness—of which a core tenet is that God can be found in all things.
By joining Silf on her journey through real life in the real world, readers will have their own eyes, minds, and hearts opened to the Divine experience and will come to more fully recognize God’s active, abiding presence in everything that they see and do.

256 pages, Paperback

First published April 30, 2009

Reviews

[Karen · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an excellent choice for contemplating slowly. I would read just one or two entries each time I used this, then I would put the book down and think about it. When I finished this book, I started over again!
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[Simon · Rating 4 out of 5]

In this book Margaret Silf demonstrates one of the basic points behind Ignatian spirituality - finding God in all people, places and things. All around the world, in families, in parks, in challenges and bad days, Silf finds the finger of God in events and people she experiences.

[Mary Brown · Rating 4 out of 5]

Margaret Silf offers reflections that are real and concrete. They connect common everyday occurrences to a level of spirituality that is available to the average person of most any religious belief. She helps readers see God in every thing and every person.

[Christopher · Rating 5 out of 5]

A series of vignettes exploring how the author discovers God in everyday situations, experiences, people, and places. I enjoy Margaret Silf's writings. It's apparent how her spirituality has evolved over the years.