Reclaiming Quiet: Cultivating a Life of Holy Attention
Ebook
In a noisy world, the cultivation of quiet may feel like a luxury you do not have. But it is also vital to your spiritual life. When we spend our days distracted by social media, news, entertainment, and jam-packed schedules, we make it nearly impossible to experience the kind of thought life that allows us to grow into the people God created us to be--to become more and more like Jesus. We're too busy and distracted to notice the people and situations God has placed in our path for our spiritual benefit.
Reclaiming Quiet is your invitation to discover the profound joy of resisting our cultural obsession with distraction and instead cultivating a life of holy attention. With practical strategies to add stillness, listening, and rest into your daily rhythms, this book shows you how to
· care for your inner life
· listen to the voice of God in the everyday
· stay grounded in the now while looking with hope and expectation to the future
You're more than a viewer, a user, or a consumer. You are a child of God, a recipient of his grace, a disciple who is seeking to follow him more closely. It's time to reclaim all that. It's time to seek out some holy quiet.
From the Back Cover
Recapture wonder and learn to live by the healing shapes and rhythms of stillness
In a restless and distracted world, the cultivation of quiet often feels abstract and impossible. But quiet is, and always has been, essential to spiritual life, the only way we can turn from the frenzy toward the peace for which we were created.
Reclaiming Quiet is an invitation to discover the profound, daily joy of resisting patterns of anxiety and hurry and cultivating a life of holy attention instead. With practical strategies to address our use of screens or fear of silence and compassionate ideas to nourish stillness, listening, and rest, this book explores
· what it means to become a person who listens each day for God's voice before all others
· how to reclaim wonder in prayer
· how to cultivate an interior life
Quiet is not for specialists or the ultra-disciplined. It's not limited to those who have great swathes of time. Quiet is our inner native land, the place to which we turn to find God already waiting, calling us beloved, and drawing us homeward into a life of holy and joyous attention.
"In a clamoring and frantic world, Sarah Clarkson's beautiful words invite us to a different way of life. A life that makes room for solitude and quietness. A holy quiet that helps us discover not only ourselves but, more importantly, our God."--Joanna Weaver, bestselling author of Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World
"Reclaiming Quiet is a beacon of hope in our noisy world. Sarah's poignant exploration of choosing quiet over chaos resonates deeply with anyone tethered to their smartphone, yearning for peace amidst life's frenzy."--Leah Boden, author of Modern Miss Mason
- Title: Reclaiming Quiet: Cultivating a Life of Holy Attention
- Author: Sarah Clarkson
- Publisher: Baker
- Print Publication Date: 2024
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781493439515, 9781540900524, 1540900525, 1493439510
- Resource ID: LLS:9781493439515
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-10-05T07:21:06Z
Sarah Clarkson is an author and blogger who writes regularly about literature, faith, and beauty at SarahClarkson.com. She studied theology (BTh, MSt) at Oxford and is the author or coauthor of six books, including This Beautiful Truth. She has an active following on Instagram (@sarahwanders) where she hosts regular live read-alouds from the poems, novels, or essays that bring her courage. She can often be found with a cup of good tea and a book in hand in her old English vicarage home in Oxford, where she lives with her Anglican vicar husband, Thomas, and their four children.