This resource for spiritual directors offers exercises and prayer tools on the theme of spiritual growth. Using the Biblical image of gardening, Christopher Chapman offers material for those seeking to live a more abundant and fruitful life.

Earthed in God provides spiritual directors with exercises and prayer tools focused on spiritual growth, using gardening as a Biblical metaphor for a fruitful life.

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Earthed in God provides helpful exercises and prayers to help you grow spiritually, using the beautiful image of gardening.

Christopher Chapman 

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Meeting God in the Garden

Part 1. Rooted and Grounded

1. Our allotted ground

2. Becoming earthed

3. Humility and growth

Part 2. Emergence

4. God’s invitation

5. Inclining the ear of the heart

6. A ‘holy daring’

Part 3. The Struggle towards Abundance 

7. Between sowing and reaping

8. Parables of growth

9. Birds, rocks and thorns

Part 4. Fruitfulness and Fall

10. The time for harvest

11. Bearing fruit

12. Apples from apple trees

Supporting Growth

Gardening and Hope

• A resource for spiritual directors with exercises and prayer tools to help discern the work of the Spirit. • There are an estimated 2000 spiritual directors in the Church of England alone and a need for resources to use with clients. • The material is accessible in approach and can also be read individually.

Drawing on his extensive experience in pastoral ministry and spiritual direction, Christopher Chapman explores the parallels between personal growth and nurturing a garden. In human life as in the natural world, growth can often be a struggle. God, like a patient gardener, chooses to grapple with what stands in the way of our fruitfulness, but requires our cooperation if we are to come into fullness of life. Earthed in God digs deeply into the riches of scripture and the Christian spiritual tradition to find resources for our growth, flourishing and abundance.

Drawing on his extensive experience in pastoral ministry and spiritual direction, Christopher Chapman explores the parallels between personal growth and nurturing a garden.

Earthed in God offers spiritual directors exercises and prayer tools focused on growth. It explores four stages of development using gardening imagery for personal reflection.

\["For spiritual directors and seekers of growth", "Provides tools for deepening your spiritual journey", "You will cultivate a more fruitful life in God"\]

Earthed in God offers practical exercises for spiritual growth.

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This resource for spiritual directors offers exercises and prayer tools on the theme of spiritual growth. Using the Biblical image of gardening, Christopher Chapman offers material for those seeking to live a more abundant and fruitful life.

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