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| Resource: |
Book (B4791) Receiving the Day: Christian Practices for Opening the Gift of Time
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| Author: |
Bass, Dorothy C. C. |
| Publisher: |
Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated, 2000 |
| Length: |
142 pages |
| Subjects: |
Personal Growth |
| Location: |
Personal Growth drawers |
| # Copies: |
1 |
| ISBN/ISSN: |
9780787956479
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| Description: |
For busy people, time is not just something to be managed, but a problem, a constraint, even an enemy to be battled every day. Though we are tempted to think that better "time management" can solve our problem with time, this approach barely scratches the surface of our need, and it can even perpetuate the illusion that we find grace through mastering our schedules. Relying on our datebooks, we fail to plumb the depths of time's significance in our lives. We miss the opportunity to embrace time as the gift of God. In this spirituality of time, Dorothy Bass invites readers into a way of living in time that is alert to both contemporary pressures and rooted ancient wisdom. The celebrated editor of Practicing Our Faith asks hard questions about how our injurious attitude toward time has distorted our relationships with our innermost selves, with other people, with the natural world, and with God. As an alternative to the rhetoric of management and mastery, Receiving the Day offers a language of attention,
poetry, and celebration. Bass encourages us to reevaluate our understanding of the temporal and thereby to participate fully in the Christian practice of knowing time as God's gift. Embraced in this way, time need not be wrestled with each day. Instead, time becomes the habitation of blessing. Receiving the Day identifies specific practices for ordering the day, the week, the year, and the lifetime--practices that enable us to live more richly and rightly in time. These practices, Bass reveals, both restore a sense of wonder in our relationship with the larger order in the universe and make a difference in the simplest acts of daily living. They prompt Christians to develop life patterns that get us through our days not only with more gratifying practical rewards, but also with greater authenticity as human beings created in God's image. Grounding her approach in historical and liturgical conceptions of time, Bass offers her own deeply personal experiences as models for understanding the challenges this invitation presents. Her honesty and compassion speak to readers anxious to change their relationship with time, and her wisdom offers welcome guidance for embracing time's rhythms as opportunities to recognize the presence of God within the ordinary days, weeks, and years of our lives. |
| Age Groups: |
Adult (30-55); Adult (55+)
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