The Attentive Life - by Leighton Ford (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>Framed around the monastic concept of praying through the hours of the day, Leighton Ford helps you to develop spiritual attentiveness so you can pay attention to how God is working through you and in the world around you.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Your attention, please. That's what God wants, Leighton Ford discovered. It's the path to becoming like Christ. Distractions, fear and busyness were keeping Ford from seeing God's work in and around him. He was missing God. So he began a journey of longing and looking for God. And it started with paying attention. In these pages, he invites you to journey with him. Using the rich monastic tradition of praying the hours, Ford will walk with you, helping you pay attention to God's work in you and around you throughout each day and in different seasons of your life. If you're busy, distracted, rushing through each day, you might be feeling disconnected from God, unable to see how he's working. You might be missing him. But the way toward him starts with a pause and a prayer--with intention and attention--and becomes a way of life, awake and alive to the peaceful, powerful presence of God.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p> <em>The Attentive Life</em> chronicles [Ford's] new desire to be attentive and more deeply nurture a viable set of practices that facilitate such spiritual intimacy with God. <em>The Attentive Life</em> is a perfect example of the kinds of things the Formatio line is about. We highly recommend it.</p>--Byron Borger, Hearts Minds Books, April 30, 2008<br><br><p>. . . A wonderfully compelling invitation to a life of prayer . . . Ford know how to share the hours with witful intelligence, charm and winsome conviction. This delightfully well-written book [will] provide any group with a host of insights, provocations, and layered viewpoints for discussion.</p>--Praying Daily (prayingdaily.blogspot.com), August 11, 2008<br><br><p>[A] distinctly Protestant addition to the tradition of monastic spirituality.</p>--Publishers Weekly, March 10, 2008<br><br><p>A spirit of ecumenism informs Ford's gracefully written guide to thoughtful prayer and attentiveness to God's voice.</p>--Library Journal, March 1, 2008<br><br><p>Filled with examples of those who paid attention, Ford's evangelical bona fides are unquestionable and well worth reading.</p>--The Christian Courier, August 2008<br><br><p>Ford examines how distractions of our post-modern world rob us of the time we spend with God. Through this easy-flowing book, he leads one into the practice of attentiveness, pointing out that the best and deepest things of life come through attentive waiting. Appropriate for both new Christians and those of long-time faith.</p>--LW, Libraries Alive, Winter 2009<br><br><p>Ford expresses in an almost poetic manner the peace that comes with the continual observation of and attentiveness to the presence of God.</p>--Heidi L. Ippolito, Christian Retailing, April 21, 2008<br><br><p>This book is special. It stretches the soul and makes everything a prayer.</p>--Lamplighter, August 2008<br><br><p>This book will take more than one reading to absorb its richness. Personal illustrations, an abundance of thought-provoking quotes, and memorable object lessons make this a book that may become a contemporary classic.</p>--JZ, Church Libraries, Fall 2008<br><br><p>Those who appreciate contemplative, gentle, insightful focus into the spiritual life will enjoy this partly autobiographical work.</p>--Anita Cain, CBA Retailers + Resources, May 2008<br><br><p>Using the richt tradition of praying the hours, Ford will walk with you, helping you pay attention to God's work in you and around you throughout each day and in different seasons of your life.</p>--Alice Brasky on Book Bargains and Previews, June 1008<br>
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