Praying Our Experiences

Discover how your ordinary life becomes a conversation with God. In this revised and expanded spiritual classic, Christian Brother Joseph Schmidt invites readers to bring their joys, fears, struggles, and hopes into honest reflection before the Lord. Through practical guidance and gentle encouragement, he shows how everyday experience can become the very content of prayer—leading to deeper self-knowledge, acceptance, and intimacy with God. Whether you’re new to prayer or seasoned in spiritual life, this book offers a path to weaving your personal story into God’s story.

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In this deeply human and spiritually rich book, Brother Joseph F. Schmidt, FSC, offers a pathway for discovering God within the concrete experiences of everyday life. Drawing from the Lasallian tradition of seeing God in all things—especially in the ordinary circumstances of work, relationships, and community—Praying Our Experiences invites readers to make their very lives the content of prayer.

Brother Joseph brings together sound psychological insight and a lived spirituality shaped by the example of Saint John Baptiste de La Salle. He shows how prayer is not confined to moments set apart but is born from reflection on what we actually live: our hopes and disappointments, our struggles and consolations, our yearning for meaning and love. Each experience, honestly embraced, becomes a meeting place with the living God.

Accessible and pastoral in tone, Praying Our Experiences serves teachers, Brothers, and all who accompany others on the journey of faith. It offers a simple yet profound invitation—to recognize that God is already present in the midst of our lives and that every experience can become prayer.