Letters by a Modern Mystic

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The tremendous results of this experiment in living in moment-by-moment communion with God are found in the narrative of these letters. The Game with Minutes, on page 85 of this book, is the practical guide Laubach developed to assist others in applying the principles articulated in his letters. Laubach is probably best known for his work to address adult illiteracy in the world.

He conceived a simple method of instruction that permitted even the most disadvantaged people in the world not only to learn to read but also to be able to teach others. On September 2, , the United States Postal Service issued a stamp commemorating the th anniversary of Laubach's birth. Frank Lubach died in at the age of His commitment to live in constant conscious communion with the Father not only transformed him personally but also permitted him to make a significant impact on illiteracy in the world, a work that continues today through ProLiteracy Worldwide, an organization he helped establish.

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The concept this book pushes is a moment to moment relationship with our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. I was introduced to both the concept and the author in Max Lucado's wonderful book, "A Heart Like Jesus" Once intrigued by the thought of continuous communion with God, I purchased this book immediately and dug into it as a starving man would a meal. The passages in this book touched me in so many different ways as it opened my eyes to this amazing possibility.

I have worked diligently at incorporating what I've learned and even though I have a long way to go before I achieve mastery if such a thing is possible , I am overjoyed at the results to date. I feel closer to God and am more aware of His presence throughout the day. With the heart of a child I approach my very best Friend and grow closer in spirit with Him.

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If you're looking for a deeper relationship with God, I can't recommend this book enough to you. You'll see other reviews complain about the letters the author sent to his father but I tell you now that if you read them with an open heart, you will see God! This is a good book. Plus this dude is a monk, living in near solitude.

It'll take work, but with the help of the Holy Spirit, it is possible. I think everyone who wants to be as close to God as is possible this side of Heaven should read this. I'd also recommend the above mentioned book by Brother Lawrence. He mentioned Frank Laubach in the book. That also might be worth checking out. It promises practical advice on how to live this way in our current days. One person found this helpful. I worked for Frank Laubach's organization in the last years of his life and was CEO for the next 10 years. His organization was nonsectarian, devoted to extending literacy throughout the world.

Letters by a Modern Mystic

A "Mystic," he is called in the title of this work, yet he was such an activist that he developed literacy primers in more than 1, languages in more than countries. He raised money from private individuals for this cause and lived in a rented one-bedroom apartment with his wife Effa, with the living room a maze of file cabinets and a desk where he wrote 35 books.

This book was not intended as a book, just honest letters written home from the Philippines in his early career. The defect of the book is three introductions. I would staple those pages together and go directly to Laubach's letters. Always a modest, hard-working man, he had his face on the covers of such magazines as Time and The Saturday Review of Literature, and was never phased.

The gist of this book is Frank Laubach's attempt to make God a constant part of his every day life by thinking about him constantly while doing other things that might, otherwise, be mundane tasks. Impossible, some might say, and Laubach did, indeed, find it challenging. The beauty of these letter excerpts is his honesty in speaking of his failures in this challenge. But, then, when he did succeed, the results were extraordinary. This little book comes at Forty-seven pages that pack a serious punch. This little book comes at a perfect time in my life. I had just finished reading The Divine Conspiracy, by Dallas Willard and Willard speaks of Laubach a number of times , and had already discovered the immediate presence of God in my life, everywhere I am, at all times.

This has had a tremendous impact on my daily life. When I remember to think about it. So here comes Frank Laubach's letter excerpts, showing me the value of working to think about it more often. Every minute if I can manage. The very thought of thinking about God's presence every minute of every day is probably daunting to some people. Some would even object and say that you wouldn't get anything useful done at all.

You might be "so heavenly minded that you'd be no earthly good," I've heard it said. Laubach begs to differ. He believed that doing so would actually help one get more accomplished, and that one would be much happier in the process. I read it while waiting during my wife's knee-replacement surgery. I will read it again, you can be sure. Jul 12, Sara floerke rated it really liked it. This guy runs an experiment where he tries to keep in constant contact with God. Oct 02, Carol rated it it was amazing. I just read it again in It still is one of my favorite books, and this time, I was able to copy all the good quotes out of it in my academic journal for the Institute!

I like my review below from I really think everyone should read this little gem again and again! I have not read this book since ! I thought I had read it since then, but NO.

I have read The Game with Minutes three times beca I just read it again in I have read The Game with Minutes three times because it is part of our ministry curriculum, but this is one of my top ten favorite books that deserves a reread! I have never written a review of it, other than having referred to it when I have reviewed other Laubach books, but I found a very old post from this blog entitled, "In His Presence" from July 30, that gets to the heart of why I love this book: I do not know what is happening with me.

There is this amazing connection that I am having with God right now. I cried out to You with the desire to not let strange encounters with others derail me from Your precious presence. It became my passion and something in which to strive because "In Your presence is fullness of joy and pleasures forever" Psalm Yet, being the emotional self that I am, it has always been difficult.

Those bi-monthly extended times of prayer helped to recalibrate me, but by the end of the sixty days, I was undone again. Oh, to be undone only by God because of His overwhelming presence. That is what I yearned for more than anything. And I added another resolve -- to be as wide open toward people and their need as I am toward God. Window open outward as well as upward. He also did not live a monastic existence as Brother Lawrence did. His inward and outward growth were simultaneous.

I wanted that moment by moment experience of God in the midst of the daily grind of life with "tilting people.

Frank Laubach’s Letters by a Modern Mystic

I realized that I had only read a chapter with longer excerpts referred to above from Laubach called "Opening Windows to God" in the Devotional Classics by Foster and Smith. Why had I never read him? If people like Willard and Ortberg and Foster and countless others were quoting him, why have I never read him directly? So I Googled and found this book. Part of the reason I had never read him in the 90's was that this book was out of print, and there were not opportunities on the internet to search out copies of it. Thankfully, by , this edition had been made available, and I ate it up! I never knew that he was a worker among the Moro people in Southeast Asia too!

My kind of guy! The Introduction by Ken Smitherman, President of the Association of Christian Schools International puts it well, when he says that, "Although these letters were written nearly eighty years ago they speak forcefully to anyone who desires the highest level of the pursuit of God and effective discipleship and discipling. It is that important of a book, and paired with The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence, it is that much more powerful! There is an online version, but I really like this little pocket book that includes The Game with Minutes too.

Mar 13, Rebecca rated it liked it Shelves: I was skeptical going in when I ordered this book upon the recommendation of a friend. I was pleasantly surprised at Laubach's equanimity when it came to Islam v. I fear there are few good Muslims.

But so would a real Christlike Christian speak to God every time he did anything--and I fear there are few good Christians. What right then have I or any other person to come here and change the name of these people from Muslim to I was skeptical going in when I ordered this book upon the recommendation of a friend. What right then have I or any other person to come here and change the name of these people from Muslim to Christian, unless I lead them to a life fuller of God than they have now?

I used the book for my Lenten meditations and it worked very well for that. As for the "Game with Minutes," at the end? I didn't like it. I found the metaphor sort of silly and glib and it was a rather bizarre shift of tone from the letters, which are filled with the real anguished questioning and blissful moments of a true spiritual sojourn. Laubach underwent the experiment of putting God before his mind every moment. He is 1 of 3 who has written about doing this. This little book is outstanding, and I hope I could do this experiment too.

I read it as a devotional, as I think one would get more out of it by relflecting on his letter for that day. One particular line spoke to me, " you must awaken hunger there, for until they hunger they cannot be fed.

Letters by a Modern Mystic by Frank C. Laubach

I love that he mentions this as people are striving today for all these things. Loved this man's passion to know God; only the Holy Spirit could move a man to undertake the challenge to know God in every moment of life. A must read for people seeking to live in the Kingdom. This reminds me to keep talking to God about my life, my emotions, my thoughts, and people I encounter.

No matter how often I read this little book, I am always challenged and inspired. Sep 28, Craig Bell rated it it was amazing. Simple little powder keg of a book. Where Brother Lawrence's "Practicing the Presence of God" urges us to make the mundane moments into sacred moments by realizing God's presence in everything we do, Laubach takes it a step further to seek the Lord's presence and will in every moment.

While this book is short and easy to read, it is meant to be practiced and developed. I appreciate the great challenge presented by Laubach and the joy I've already experienced in the process. Mar 26, Grace rated it it was amazing. Another favorite that has helped me learn the joys and treasures of contemplative interaction with God while IN the world. Easy to read, honest, practical. A profound and life-changing book A profound and life-changing book if his method is applied. It's easy to read, and the instructions are clear and applicable to everyone. That tim I first heard of Frank C.

Never did I so feel the need of a silent typewriter as at this moment, for every stroke clashes with the marvelous silence of the hills tonight. I am still under the spell of that hush and of that sunset.

I suppose there have been equally beautiful scenes since the world was created, but not more beautiful for me. And as I talked and tasted the sweetness of the luscious light, and told God that this was for me the masterpiece of His creation, he told me through my own voice: This is what all life can have if you are willing.

I ache with longings with poor little people cannot even suspect, to open up wider and ever wider universes of glory to you all. We are so eager to judge people by their past, and it is not fair. We are what we are now, not an hour ago, and what we are planning, not what we are vainly trying to forget. This short little collection of letters never fails to pack a spiritual punch. It chronicles his experiments with keeping God in his conscious awareness on a moment-to-moment basis.

I was introduced to both the concept and the author in Max Lucado's wonderful book, "A Heart Like Jesus" Once intrigued by the thought of continuous communion with God, I purchased this book immediately and dug into it as a starving man would a meal. The passages in this book touched me in so many different ways as it opened my eyes to this amazing possibility.

I have worked diligently at incorporating what I've learned and even though I have a long way to go before I achieve mastery if such a thing is possible , I am overjoyed at the results to date. I feel closer to God and am more aware of His presence throughout the day.

With the heart of a child I approach my very best Friend and grow closer in spirit with Him. If you're looking for a deeper relationship with God, I can't recommend this book enough to you. You'll see other reviews complain about the letters the author sent to his father but I tell you now that if you read them with an open heart, you will see God! Jan 31, Cynthia Egbert rated it really liked it.

I really appreciated this man's struggles and efforts to put God first in his mind. It changed his life and the lives that he served because of this mentality.

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Here are a couple of favorite quotes from this book. The other idol says and God vanishes. Not because God is 'a jealous God' but because sincerity and insincerity are contradictions and cannot both I really appreciated this man's struggles and efforts to put God first in his mind. Not because God is 'a jealous God' but because sincerity and insincerity are contradictions and cannot both exist at the same time in the same place.

Our possibilities are perhaps not limitless, but they are at least infinitely above our present possibilities of imagination. Laubach was a missionary to the Philippines in the s and this book is a collection of his letters written to his father back in the States.

In his letters Laubach describes his attempt at a rather simple, but daunting experiment: I was personally intrigued by the contrast of this experiment. On one hand it is the simplest of conce While reading a book by Dallas Willard, I ran across a reference to this book by Frank Laubach. Yet with each failure, Laubach reminds us that each minute brings the opportunity to start fresh again.

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