Your Daily Life Is Your Temple

by Rowthorn, Anne

• ISBN13: 9781596270220
• ISBN10: 1596270225
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-04-20
• Publisher: Seabury Books

Summary

Many of us sense that God is with us in our daily lives but can't put words to the longings we feel, and most churches and synagogues aren't helping us. If we still go to church, we wonder why we are still there and feel we've lost the connections between the faith we practice on Sunday morning and a passionate life in the everyday world. Using Carlo Carretto's definition of spirituality as "a way of thinking, living and sanctifying our lives," Rowthorn shows how we can uncover an authentic faith for our times. To be passionately engaged, all we need to do is take the ordinary acts of our lives and see them differently. We have only to unwrap the gifts we already hold in our hands--the people we meet, the places we go, and the choices we make about work, children, friendships, politics, the arts, and hospitality.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Prologue	p. xv
A Place Called Home	p. 1
Following the Temple Path	p. 9
Work: The Fabric of the World	p. 18
Cherishing Children	p. 31
Opening the Doors of Perception	p. 45
Loving the Earth and Keeping the Garden	p. 56
The Eleventh Commandment: Hospitality	p. 65
Money Talks	p. 78
Rushing for Justice	p. 93
Friendship	p. 105
Forgiveness	p. 117
Your Daily Life is Your Temple	p. 125
Endnotes	p. 131
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