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Sabbath : restoring the sacred rhythm of rest / Wayne Muller.

Summary:

A meditation on the need for a day of rest, against the background of a growing commercialization of Sunday. The author analyzes the rhythm of labor and rest, by which all living beings are governed.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0553106724
  • ISBN: 9780553106725
  • ISBN: 0553380117
  • ISBN: 9780553380118
  • Physical Description: 241 pages ; 25 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Bantam Books, [1999]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-236).
Formatted Contents Note:
Remember the Sabbath: A Note on the Exercises 1 -- Rest -- Rest for the Weary: Lighting Sabbath Candles 17 -- Joy of Rest: Creating Time and Space 23 -- Legalism and the Dreary Sabbath: A Sabbath Meal 29 -- A New Beginning: Begin Again 35 -- It is Good: Blessing 40 -- Fear of Rest: Silence 48 -- Dormancy: The Sabbath Box 57 -- Rhythm -- Rhythm of Creation: The Sabbath Walk 65 -- Inner Music: The Cadence of Breath 71 -- Hurtling Toward the Eschaton: Nature 76 -- Let It Be: Prayer 82 -- Book of Hours: Lectio Divina 88 -- Time -- A Life Well Lived: Play 97 -- Seize the Day: Altar 103 -- Why Time is Not Money: Reciting Our Precepts 108 -- A Deeper Wealth: The Wealth of Companionship 114 -- Happiness -- Pursuit of Happiness: Gratefulness 123 -- Gospel of Consumption: Happiness for Free 129 -- Selling Unhappiness: Morning Rituals 134 -- Tyranny of Choice: Stopping to Rest 140 -- Sensuality and Delight: Take Off Your Shoes 147 -- Wisdom -- Doing Good Badly: Patience 157 -- Be Still and Know: Sleeping on It 165 -- Nobody Special: Humility 172 -- Being Sabbath: Thinning 179 -- Beginner's Mind: Cleansing 186 -- Consecration -- Mindfulness and Holiness: Confession 195 -- Way of Enough: A Place at the Table 200 -- Ownership: Giveaway 204 -- Breaking the Trance 209 -- A Sabbath Day -- Evening 217 -- Morning 222 -- Afternoon 226 -- Leaving Sabbath Time 230.
Subject: Rest > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Sabbath.
Christian life.

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