Paperback: The veil lifts up like the curtain on a stage; we are in the middle of the interior life of a Franciscan Order.
Twelve Franciscan Brothers and Sisters talk openly in sensitive interviews about their relationship with God, their hopes and dreams, their joys and temptations in everyday life.
What have they found?
What have they let go?
Why did they follow their calling?
The God Seekers (2012) will help you find your own calling in life.
The God Seekers is translated by Herbert Uhl from the Original Italian Cercatori di Dio La Vita dei Francescani oggi.
About the author: Ingrid Henzler is an author, a poet, a God Seeker, a passionate woman who feels deeply about life and love. She was born in Germany and has travelled extensively in Europe and the USA. At age of 27, she lived one year in India and came to know the teaching of Paramahansa Yogananda and his classic book, The Autobiography of a Yogi, which transformed her life and brought her back to a deeper understanding of Christianity. Ingrid has a degree in Education and speaks German, English and Italian. She wrote meditation exercises, and organized for seventeen years retreats for young people with the theme "The encounter with God."
Since early childhood she has been devoted to the lives and stories of saints. She was powerfully drawn to the homeland of St Francis of Assisi. For many years she has lived in Italy where she writes, studies and offers guided tours. Ingrid leads groups and visits the convents and shrines, the pastoral landscapes, sacred known and unknown places, and the colorful streets of the charming cities of Umbria and Tuscany.
Ingrid can be seen walking the cobblestone streets past flower-covered balconies driven by her own reflections and deep love of God as the Beloved. She stands at the shores of the lakes and oceans and gazes into the mystery of the beauty of the rising sun and the deep midnight of the moon and stars.
Ingrid has created videos of sacred places, and they are sensitive and moving portraits of spiritual charm, often accompanied by classical music and her own narrative and her mystical poetry.
As so many of us Ingrid walked through valleys of sorrow and compassion while caring many years for those in despair. God has turned her mourning into dancing as she finds expression for her creative insight. She shares all of who she is through her guided pilgrimages, her joy, her poetry, her pictures, as well as her love for music and nature.
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