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The attentive life

discerning God's presence in all things

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Your attention, please. That's what God wants, Leighton Ford discovered. It's the path to becoming like Christ. Distractions and fear and busyness were keeping Ford from seeing God's work in and around him. He was missing God. So he began a journey of longing and looking for God. And it started with paying attention. In these pages, he invites you to journey with him. Using the rich tradition of praying the hours, Ford will walk with you, helping you pay attention to God's work in you and around you throughout each day and in different seasons of your life. If you're busy, distracted, rushing through each day, you might be feeling disconnected from God, unable to see how he's working. You might be missing him. But the way toward him starts with a pause and a prayer -- with intention and attention -- and becomes a way of life, awake and alive to the peaceful, powerful presence of God. - Publisher.

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IVP Books
Language
English

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The Attentive Life: Discerning God's Presence in All Things
Oct 06, 2014, IVP Books
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Attentive Life: Discerning God's Presence in All Things
2013, InterVarsity Press
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The attentive life: discerning God's presence in all things
2008, IVP Books
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Downers Grove, Ill.

Table of Contents

An introduction : short flights and quick returns
One who paid attention : C.S. Lewis looking along a beam
Paying attention : the hours of our lives
One who paid attention : Simone Weil on a postage stamp
The birthing hour : time before time
One who paid attention : Vincent Donovan, the Masai chief, the missionary and the lion god
Daybreak : the hour of beginnings
One who paid attention : the teacher who took off his hat
Prime time : our root system
One who paid attention : my spiritual director dog
Active life : a slower pace in a faster world
One who paid attention : Kierkegaard's lanterns, fireworks and stars
The noonday demon : our distractible selves
One who paid attention : how Mother Teresa kept going
Holy stillness : an interlude
When shadows come : darkness comes early
One who paid attention : Jerry Sittser trying to catch the sun
Lighting the lamps : the house with golden windows
One who paid attention : Nouwen, a restless prophet
Grandfather time : when evening comes
One who paid attention : Hwee Hwee Tan, becoming what we look at
Epilogue : The journey home
Appendix : Observing the hours

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. ).

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
231.7
Library of Congress
BT132 .F67 2008, BT132.F67 2008

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
225 p.
Dimensions
22 x x centimeters

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL16443842M
Internet Archive
attentivelifedis0000ford
ISBN 10
0830835164
ISBN 13
9780830835164
LCCN
2008002184
OCLC/WorldCat
182738297
Library Thing
5308805
Goodreads
2956667

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