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Receiving the dayDorothy C. Bass

Receiving the day

1999150 pages
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"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. 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." "Receiving the Day identifies…

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6 editions
  • Hardcover · English · 1999
    Jossey-Bass · 142 pages · 9780787942878
  • Other · English · 2019
    1517 Media · 176 pages · 9781506454764
  • Other · English · 2007
    Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John · 9780470247006
  • Other · English · 2002
    Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John · 9780787959272
  • Other · English · 2001
    Jossey-Bass · 158 pages · 9780787956479
  • Other · English · 2001
    Jossey-Bass · 35 pages · 9780787958787
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