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Description
Most of us struggle with the “time famine”—the pervasive feeling of never having enough time. Whether we work three jobs or none, have many children or none, or live in a huge city or a small town, most of us have the feeling there is always more to do than we’re able, more time required than we can give. In Never Enough Time,Rev. Donna Schaper helps us think through the practical and spiritual elements of the time famine and helps us instead aim for a feast. Schaper’s advice centers around our mind-set—understanding both the structural and personal reasons we feel so pressed, clarifying what’s important to us or not, and setting realistic expectations, while enriching the time we have. The book goes beyond the idea of “Sabbath keeping” to offer suggestions for all parts of life—particularly the busy moments. Schaper draws on her years ministering to people across all walks of life to show that the time famine cuts across race, class, and gender lines to touch almost everyone. She offers practical and spiritual suggestions that won’t magically give us more time, but can help us live better with the time we have.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Why Don't We Have Enough Time?
Chapter 2: The Importance of Numbers Sizing Up Your Time Trouble
Chapter 3: What If Time Were as Important to You and Your Life as Water . . . and You Didn’t Know It?
Chapter 4: Time Famine as a Really Good First World Problem
Chapter 5: Knowing What’s Important: Elemental Approaches to Time
Chapter 6: Doing Something New
Chapter 7: The Turn toward the Practical
Chapter 8: The Importance of Numbers
Chapter 9: Speckness
Chapter 10: Facing Facts as We Face God
Chapter 11: That Pesky First World Problem
Conclusion
Selected References
Product details
Published | 27 Apr 2018 |
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Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 176 |
ISBN | 9781442266391 |
Imprint | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
About the contributors
Reviews
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Time-repentance, what a remarkable gift. Schaper gives us time, joyful time, God’s time, truly human time, liberating time, and best of all, fun time. To turn around and see time itself as God’s sacred gift is liberating and energizing, a gift especially needed in our over-worked, often joyless lives. A must read for everyone who complains they no longer have time to read!
Rev. Dr. Serene Jones, president and Johnston Family professor for religion and democracy at Union Theological Seminary in the city of New York
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We live in a world that is boldly demanding a spiritual revolution, a new direction for our souls. Rev. Donna Schaper is one of the foremost leaders and thinkers in America, and her new book, Never Enough Time: A Practical and Spiritual Guide, is a dynamic and captivating text for those who feel overwhelmed by the heaviness of life. And it is a gift to us, from Schaper, on how to navigate spiritually, socially, politically, in our troubled times, and in the times ahead.
Kevin Powell, author, The Education of Kevin Powell: A Boy's Journey into Manhood