Sabbath : restoring the sacred rhythm of rest / Wayne Muller. [print]
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Bantam Books, (c)1999.Description: 241 pages ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780553106725
- 9780553380118
- BV4509.5.M958.S233 1999
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Part I. Rest -- Rest for the weary: lighting Sabbath candles -- The joy of rest: creating time and space -- Legalism and the dreary Sabbath: a Sabbath meal -- A new beginning: begin again -- It is good: blessing -- Dormancy: the Sabbath box -- Part II. Rhythm -- The rhythm of creation: the Sabbath walk -- Inner music: the cadence of breath -- Hurtling toward the eschaton: nature -- Let it be: prayer -- The book of hours: lectio divina -- Part III. Time -- A life well lived: play -- Seize the day: alter -- Why time is not money: reciting our precepts -- A deeper wealth: the wealth of companionship -- Part IV. Happiness -- The pursuit of happiness: gratefulness -- The gospel of consumption: happiness for free -- Selling unhappiness: morning rituals -- The tyranny of choice: stopping to rest -- Sensuality and delight: take off your shoes -- Part V. Wisdom -- Doing good badly: patience -- Be still and know: sleeping on it -- Nobody special: humility -- Being Sabbath: thinning -- Beginner's mind: cleansing -- Part VI. Consecration -- Mindfulness and holiness: confession -- The way of enough: a place at the table -- Ownership: giveaway -- Breaking the trance -- Part VII. A Sabbath day -- Evening -- Morning -- Afternoon -- Leaving Sabbath time.
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, governed by all living beings.
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