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.
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