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A Good Life: Benedict's Guide to Everyday Joy

A Good Life: Benedict's Guide to Everyday Joy

Robert Benson
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"There is no shortage of good days," writes Annie Dillard. "It is good lives that are hard to come by." Reflecting on what makes a "good life," Robert Benson offers a warmhearted, humorous guide to enriching our lives with the wisdom of Benedict, a 6th century monk. Each chapter is shaped around a Benedictine principle: prayer, rest, community, and work, and reveals the brilliant and infinitely practical ways that Benedictine spirituality can shape our lives today. Benson is honest and wise, sharing his own failings and the constant tension that he feels between the demands of the temporal and the spiritual. For anyone who feels caught in a web of conflicting priorities, or who finds the pace of modern life more draining than fulfilling, A Good Life will come as a welcome treat for the soul.
Language
English
Pages
85
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Paraclete Press
Release
April 01, 2004
ISBN
1557253560
ISBN 13
9781557253569

A Good Life: Benedict's Guide to Everyday Joy

Robert Benson
4.1/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
"There is no shortage of good days," writes Annie Dillard. "It is good lives that are hard to come by." Reflecting on what makes a "good life," Robert Benson offers a warmhearted, humorous guide to enriching our lives with the wisdom of Benedict, a 6th century monk. Each chapter is shaped around a Benedictine principle: prayer, rest, community, and work, and reveals the brilliant and infinitely practical ways that Benedictine spirituality can shape our lives today. Benson is honest and wise, sharing his own failings and the constant tension that he feels between the demands of the temporal and the spiritual. For anyone who feels caught in a web of conflicting priorities, or who finds the pace of modern life more draining than fulfilling, A Good Life will come as a welcome treat for the soul.
Language
English
Pages
85
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Paraclete Press
Release
April 01, 2004
ISBN
1557253560
ISBN 13
9781557253569

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