Friend of My Heart

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Friend of My Heart: Meeting Christ in Everyday Life

“Friend of My Heart is a different kind of book about what I can only call prayer. In a way it casts a new light on prayer, yet from another point of view it simply brings up to date, as it were, what mystics and ‘friends of God’ have always told us. Above all, it is about the experience of prayer, of the intimacy of prayer and the spiritual world.” — Christopher Bamford

 

“How, when, and where can one meet this Friend of every heart? My guess is that there are as many ways of meeting him as there are human beings in the world. I have heard of people who met him unexpectedly in near death experiences, during illnesses, or at crossroads in their lives. Some of these people saw and heard him, while for others the experience was less direct but no less meaningful. For example, they heard his voice or sensed his presence in the words or deeds of a friend or a stranger. I have also read of people meeting him because they earnestly desired it. Whether we are conscious or not of wanting to meet him, I believe his wish for the encounter is always present, but he never forces himself upon us. I have always felt complete respect from him for my freedom, both inner and outer.” -from Friend of My Heart

To open this book is to open yourself to the possibility of an extraordinary meeting. For this is the story of such a meeting, and it is one that can happen to anyone who wants it. The book begins as each of us must begin—with a declaration of hope, heartfelt longing, expectation. Gathered from more than twenty-five journals over twenty years, the messages in this book invite us to listen in the spirit of simplicity, openness, and faith, and then to be attentive to what stirs within. First comes the question: how, when and where can one meet this Friend of the heart? The answer comes from the author’s experiences and the messages she has received inwardly. Made deaf by illness at the age of six, Claire Blatchford speaks to us about how to listen and how to hear from our own inner and outer lives.

These are primary messages, put into the context of the author’s life, that enable us, in the context of our own lives, to enter into a relationship with this Being who is the Friend of every heart. Friend of My Heart leaves us with the profound sense that we can all stand truly as our own selves in the presence of love.

C O N T E N T S:

Foreword by Christopher Bamford
Preface

Meeting
Right Here
Hearing
Listening
More about Meeting Him
Breathing
Seeing
When We Are in Pain
When Those We Love Are in Pain
Work with Him
About Work
Working with Others
Work Within
Working with the Dead
Not Knowing and Going Naked
A Final Posy

About the Author

Claire Howell Blatchford was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Connecticut. Owing to a case of mumps, she became deaf at the age of six. After attending regular schools and graduating from Bennington College, she studied at Gallaudet University, the Waldorf Institute for Liberal Education, and Teachers College. She has taught the deaf for many years. She now lives with her husband in northwestern Massachusetts and works at the Clarke School for the Deaf. Claire is the author of several books on being deaf, as well as her books on inner sight: Turning: Words Heard from Within (1994, 2001); Friend of My Heart: Meeting Christ in Everyday Life (1999); Becoming: A Call to Love (2004); and Experiences with the Dying and the Dead: Waking to Our Connections with Those Who Have Died (2007).

Additional information

Weight 15 oz
Dimensions 5.5 × 0.2 × 8.5 in
Author

Foreword

Christopher Bamford

ISBN13

9780940262942

Published

June 1999

Format

Paperback

Pages

160

Publisher

Lindisfarne Books

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