Ron Parrish

I've always been drawn to study, practice, and create devotional exercises - ways to experience more of God's presence and His love. In that respect this book has been more than 40 years in the making.

Over two years ago, during a prayer retreat at our cabin in the mountains in central Bali, I started writing out simple, clear steps that I've used to practice these spiritual exercises in order to pass them on to others . The project snowballed as I compiled more and more creative and fun ways to pray. The Holy Spirit kept jogging my memory of exercises that I had come across over the years. I discovered more through the writings of great devotional masters of ages past. I had a blast "field-testing" exercises that were new to me. The creativity flowed with more and more God-inspired ideas.

Many of my days not spent in the mountains of central Bali are spent traveling around other parts of the Indonesian Archipelago meeting all kinds of interesting people from various cultures. Janine and I have lived in Indonesia for more than 13 years so we are very comfortable relating to the people there. We have children and grandchildren there, as well as children in the United States.