Reviews for The Lessons of St. Francis: How to Bring Simplicity and Spirituality into Your Daily Life

The average rating for The Lessons of St. Francis: How to Bring Simplicity and Spirituality into Your Daily Life based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-12-30 00:00:00 John Harriman This book was given to me one year ago by a close friend who knew how much I love St. Francis. She must have noticed the little puja to him in my kitchen alcove and statuary of him in my front garden, both of which she saw the night she came to my house for a holiday dinner with book in hand. As it turns out, Francis was even more of a zealot about God than I am about him. In fact, he was so exuberant in his demonstrative love of God that his followers felt the need to protect him from being locked up at the looney farm. The parts I liked least about this book were the passages where the author talks about his own hermitage. The best part was at the end about why and how to pray and what loving God really means--how much control you have to give up to really be in sync with God's will for you, although the word "control" is not in this book much at all. I enjoyed reading about how influential Francis was in overturning the feudal system and ushering in new thinking that became the Renaissance. His place in secular history is almost as important as his place in the realm of saints. I recommend this book for anyone looking for a spiritual recharge, certainly anyone who likes biography, along with environmentalists and animal lovers.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-10-08 00:00:00 Daavide Barclay I read Talbot's book on putting the lessons learned from St. Francis into our every lives along with Richard Foster's Celebration of Discipline. I felt both authors from two very difference denominations were aspiring to a simple purpose, bringing their readership into a practical and celebratory life with Chris Jesus. The best chapter in Talbot's book was on peace, as this has been a subject i've been interested in studying within the Christian perspective for some time now. The only bumps in the road for this book is this is very much from Talbot's perspective as a Franciscan monk or quasi monk, i wasn't really clear on that. He's a former hippie and lives in a commune and is apparently a folk rock country whatever musician and he never misses an opportunity to tell you. Besides that, which is really laughable and not sinister in any way, his intention is pure and spiritually driven. I would recommend this book to anyone looking to deepen their understanding on the spiritual disciplines.