Lent: A Focus on Prayer and Meditation

Finding Inner Peace During Troubled Times by William Moss

Peace is perhaps the most elusive, miraculous phenomenon in the human experience. From the kindergarteners arguing on the playground to the world powers storing up technologically advanced weapons, we clearly struggle to coexist peacefully with each other. Yet for all our efforts to generate peace between people, we often overlook the importance of finding peace within ourselves. Though we long for this inner peace, our world full of war, famine, bank collapses, pandemics, and day-to-day struggles has discouraged us from even trying to find it.

In his new book, Finding Inner Peace During Troubled Times, author William Moss shows readers that inner peace is indeed attainable in the person and presence of Jesus. As a high-powered businessman and a key political decision-maker, Moss has faced his share of daily distractions. For over a decade, he has studied and practiced the lost art of Christian meditation.

Many believers are wary of any form of meditation because of its association with Eastern religions. These Christians might be surprised to learn that meditation was regarded as a key spiritual discipline throughout church history. Eastern meditation focuses on emptying the mind completely. Christians find inner peace by filling their minds-with scripture and with the presence of the Holy Spirit. Another fundamental difference is the motivation behind the meditation. Peace, like life, is a gift from God that is for His glory-and it is meant to be shared. For those who are in Christ, meditation is not about practicing the kind of self-focus that precludes people from being involved in the solutions of the many problems that confront them. It is communion with God through the Holy Spirit. It is letting go of anger, worry, and fear and taking on the loving, serving character of Christ instead.

Finding Inner Peace During Troubled Times uses key scriptures to demonstrate God's gift of peace to every believer. This slender book encourages readers to be intentional about pursuing that peace, even including a simple, step-by-step example of Christian meditation.  This is a perfect book to take anywhere you go, put in your purse, backpack or briefcase and refer to throughout the day.

A 25 minute pre-recorded interview with William Moss

is available for download at www.ureadbooks.com/moss.

What others are saying about Finding Inner Peace During Troubled Times by William Moss:

Bill Moss in Finding Inner Peace During Troubled Times invites us to join him in his pilgrimage into inner peace.  Indeed today "worry, self preservation, hunger, lack of money, arrogance, competiveness, criticism and illness" are frequently our constant companions, but Bill suggests that God's radical love in Jesus brings us into the mind of Christ.  In our prayers he urges us "to breathe in love, breathe out anger".  What a magnificent insight into God's love that Bill offers to us.

I highly recommend this deeply spiritual book as a way for all of us to find inner peace. 

~The Reverend Canon John L. Peterson, Canon for Global Justice and Reconciliation, Washington National Cathedral

What a spiritually soothing book.  The combination of scriptures works wonders - they are calming and reassuring.  I couldn't quit reading it and when I finished, I did feel at peace. This is a book our busy world needs.

~Rena Pederson, author of What's Next? Women Redefining their Dreams in the Prime of Life and The Lost Apostle, Searching for the Truth about Junia