Receiving the Day (eBook)

DOROTHY C. BASS, editor of Practicing Our Faith and a historian of American religion, is director of the Valparaiso University Project on the Education and Formation of People in Faith.

Preface.

1. Experiencing the Fullness of Time.

2. This Is the Day That God Has Made.

3. Receiving This Day.

4. The Sabbath Opens Creation for Its True Future.

5. Keeping This Sabbath.

6. The Circling Year Draws Us Into the Story of God.

7. Living in the Story, This Year.

8. Learning to Count Our Days.

References.

"With wisdom, clarity, and sacred practicality, Dorothy Basschanges our relationship with Time. It needn't control us. Rather,the day, the week, and the year are each an opportunity for us toshape our lives in the peace and kindness of God. God's storybecomes our story. This is a book of genuine insight and gentleleadership. Let it turn your calendar from a taskmaster into a giftfrom the Creator for creation and for you." (Walter Wangerin Jr.,author, The Book of God)

"Those who struggle with pressures and limits of time--that is, allof us! --will find this book a rich resource to be tasted andtried. This deeply spiritual book dramatically reorients the heartof the reader . . . challenging our time-obsessed society andteaching the wisdom of religious practices." (Bonnie J.Miller-McLemore, author, And Also a Mother: Work and Family AsTheological Dilemma)

"A profoundly useful book. . . . It reminds us forcibly that we areembodied creatures gifted by God with time too precious to fritteror work away. In its recommendations for healing our relationshipto time it is often unsettlingly revolutionary, frequentlysubversive of our secular culture, and always full of DorothyBass's honest and generous reflections on her own life. It is apleasure to recommend it." (Roberta Bondi, author, A Place to Pray:Reflections on the Lord's Prayer and Memories of God)