This book is my first reading by Dorothy C. Bass but will not be the last. She has a wonderful way of starting with the day that God has given to each of us and weaving it into the liturgy, the Sabbath, the Christian year, showing how we are drawn into the story of God with our days and how we can experience "fullness of time" and learn to "count our days." Very helpful for me in planning my devotional time for the coming Christian year of 2015-2016. Following are quotes from various authors reviewing this book:
Walter Wangerin, Jr.: "With wisdom, clarity, and sacred practicality, Dorothy Bass changes our relationship with Time. It needn't control us. Rather, the day, the week, and the year are each an opportunity for us to shape our lives in the peace and kindness of God. God's story becomes our story. This is a book of genuine insight and gentle leadership. Let it turn your calendar from a taskmaster into a gift from the Creator for creation and for you."
Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore: "This deeply spiritual book dramatically reorients the heart of the reader...challenging our time-obsessed society and teaching the wisdom of religious practices."
Roberta Bondi: "A profoundly useful book ....It reminds us forcibly that we are embodied creatures gifted by God with time too precious to fritter or work away. In its recommendations for healing our relationship to time it is often unsettlingly revolutionary, frequently subversive of our secular culture, and always full of of Dorothy Bass's honest and generous reflections on her own life. It is a pleasure to recommend it."
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