The Attentive Life: Discerning God's Presence in All Things

by Ford, Leighton

• ISBN13: 9780830835164
• ISBN10: 0830835164
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-05-30
• Publisher: Intervarsity Pr

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Short Flights and Quick Returns	p. 9
One Who Paid Attention: C. S. Lewis Looking Along a Beam	p. 16
Paying Attention: The Hours of Our Lives	p. 19
One Who Paid Attention: Simone Weil on a Postage Stamp	p. 48
The Birthing Hour: Time Before Time	p. 50
One Who Paid Attention: Vincent Donovan - the Masai Chief, the Missionary and the Lion God	p. 62
Daybreak: The Hour of Beginnings	p. 64
One Who Paid Attention: The Teacher Who Took Off His Hat	p. 79
Prime Time: Our Root System	p. 81
One Who Paid Attention: My Spiritual Director Dog	p. 97
Active Life: A Slower Pace in a Faster World	p. 99
One Who Paid Attention: Kierkegaard's Lanterns, Fireworks and Stars	p. 114
The Noonday Demon: Our Distractible Selves	p. 116
One Who Paid Attention: How Mother Teresa Kept Going	p. 131
Holy Stillness: An Interlude	p. 133
When Shadows Come: Darkness Comes Early	p. 141
One Who Paid Attention: Jerry Sittser Trying to Catch the Sun	p. 162
Lighting the Lamps: The House with Golden Windows	p. 163
One Who Paid Attention: Henri Nouwen, a Restless Prophet	p. 180
Grandfather Time: When Evening Comes	p. 182
One Who Paid Attention: Hwee Hwee Tan - Becoming What We Look At	p. 198
Epilogue: The Journey Home	p. 200
Appenddx Observing the Hours	p. 205
Notes	p. 212
In Attention to Gratitude	p. 223
Permissions	p. 227
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