Peter Graystone

Detox Your Spiritual Life in 40 Days


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      Detox Your Spiritual Life in 40 Days

      Also by Peter Graystone and published by Canterbury Press:

      Signs of the Times: The Secret Lives of Twelve Everyday Icons

      A fascinating and extremely accessible read.

      Third Way

      The facts are fascinating and the writing is funny. As your starter for ten, it’s entertaining, informative and thought-provoking.

      Surefish.co.uk

      This is a great little book and lots of fun to read. It will open your eyes to a number of things going on around you that you may not have been aware of before.

      Baptist Times

      Detox Your Spiritual Life in 40 Days

      Peter Graystone

      Copyright information

      Text © Peter Graystone 2004

      First published in 2004 by the Canterbury Press, Norwich (a publishing imprint of Hymns Ancient & Modern Limited, a registered charity)

      St Mary’s Works, St Mary’s Plain,

      Norwich, Norfolk, NR3 3BH

      www.scm-canterburypress.co.uk

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher, Canterbury Press

      Bible quotations are taken from the New International Version, copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2001 International Bible Society. Used by permission of Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, a member of Hodder Headline Ltd. John 1.5 is from the New English Bible © Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press 1961, 1970.

      British Library Cataloguing in Publication data

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

      ISBN 1-85311-606-8

      Typeset by Regent Typesetting, London

      Printed and bound by Bookmarque, Croydon

      Dedication

      For Andy and Abby who will make the world a better place

      Contents

       Foreword

       Introduction

       Detox your body

       1. Eat well

       2. Have a health check

       3. Recover

       4. Get some sleep

       5. Shake yourself awake

       6. Change pace

       7. Break a habit

       Detox your standards

       8. Open a door

       9. Get busy

       10. Reflect God’s values

       11. Enjoy goodness

       12. Be generous

       13. Face up to embarrassment

       14. Seek purity

       15. Choose wisely

       Detox your past

       16. Confess

       17. Let go of failures

       18. Look back

       19. Put regrets behind you

       20. Recycle your experiences

       21. Be nostalgic

       Detox your expectations

       22. Hope for the best

       23. Check your ambitions

       24. Save time

       25. Make a sacrifice

       26. Rejuvenate

       27. Think about death

       Detox your relationships

       28. Appreciate friends

       29. Meet other Christians

       30. Develop a family likeness

       31. Be different

       32. Explore freedom

       33. Risk being loved

       Detox your spiritual life

       34. Wonder

       35. Let God speak