Receiving the Day
Subtitle: Christian Practices for Opening the Gift of Time (Practices of Faith Series)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: September 10, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9780787942878
Subjects: Personal Christian testimony & popular inspirational works; Time; Religion - Inspirational/Spirituality; Christianity; Operations Management; Sunday; Religion; Spirituality - General; Religion - Prayer & Spirituality; Christianity - Christian Life - General; Inspirational - General; Time management; Christian Life - General; Management - General; Religious aspects
First sentence: In the Midwestern town where I live, all the children are required to buy datebooks at the beginning of fourth grade.
Description: "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. 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."--BOOK JACKET.