Attentive Life: Discerning God's Presence in All Things

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Your attention, please.

That's what God wants, Leighton Ford discovered. It's the path to becoming like Christ.

Distractions and 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 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.

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Overview

Your attention, please.

That's what God wants, Leighton Ford discovered. It's the path to becoming like Christ.

Distractions and 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 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.

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Ford would seem an unlikely candidate to write a gentle, moving introduction to traditional monastic spirituality. As Billy Graham's brother-in-law and frequent stand-in, Ford's evangelical bona fides are unquestionable. Yet he describes the details of life at Mepkin Abbey, a Trappist monastery in South Carolina, with the eye of the avid amateur painter he also is. Reading this book you'll find yourself scribbling down prayers from obscure medieval figures like a certain St. Fursey. Ford is also appealing as he describes odd gestures he's willing to make in search of the God who's present in the everyday: hugging a tree, hugging himself in an airport with passersby all around, revealing his own struggles with his image and how to pursue God rather than his own self-aggrandizement. He does make a distinctly Protestant addition to the tradition of monastic spirituality, insisting that the most rigorous of spiritual practices are for all believers. The few missteps are slight: Ford's references to his heavy travel schedule and frequent vacations do threaten to make this feel like a spirituality for the upper-middle class only, and his readings of scripture tend to the emotive and literal. (May)

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Ford's credentials include 30 years of service with the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, as well as frequent appearances on Graham's Hour of Decisionradio broadcast. A spirit of ecumenism informs Ford's gracefully written guide to thoughtful prayer and attentiveness to God's voice, based on the very ancient Christian ritual of praying the canonical Hours. Each section is accompanied by a short reflection on "One Who Paid Attention," including the likes of Henri Nouwen, C.S. Lewis, and Ford's dog Wrangler. Ford includes an appendix with suggested prayers for observing the Hours. For most collections.


—Graham Christian Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780830835164
  • Publisher: InterVarsity Press
  • Publication date: 5/1/2008
  • Pages: 92
  • Sales rank: 360,727
  • Product dimensions: 5.80 (w) x 8.40 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Meet the Author

Leighton Ford heads Leighton Ford Ministries, which seeks to help young leaders worldwide to lead more like Jesus and more to Jesus. For many years, Ford communicated Christ around the globe through speaking, writing and media outreach. He describes his current mission to be "an artist of the soul and a friend on the journey." He is the author of Transforming Leadership.

Table of Contents

An Introduction: Short Flights and Quick Returns One Who Paid Attention: C. S. Lewis Looking Along a Beam
1. Paying Attention: The Hours of Our Lives One Who Paid Attention: Simone Weil on a Postage Stamp
2. The Birthing Hour: Time Before Time One Who Paid Attention: Vincent Donovan--the Masai Chief, the Missionary and the Lion God
3. Daybreak: The Hour of Beginnings One Who Paid Attention: The Teacher Who Took Off His Hat
4. Prime Time: Our Root System One Who Paid Attention: My Spiritual Director Dog
5. Active Life: A Slower Pace in a Faster World One Who Paid Attention: Kierkegaard's Lanterns, Fireworks and Stars
6. The Noonday Demon: Our Distractible Selves One Who Paid Attention: How Mother Teresa Kept Going Holy Stillness: An Interlude
7. When Shadows Come: Darkness Comes Early One Who Paid Attention: Jerry Sittser Trying to Catch the Sun
8. Lighting the Lamps: The House with Golden Windows One Who Paid Attention: Nouwen, a Restless Prophet
9. Grandfather Time: When Evening Comes One Who Paid Attention: Hwee Hwee Tan, Becoming What We Look At Epilogue: The Journey Home Appendix: Observing the Hours Notes In Attention to Gratitude Permissions
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