Pursue the Intentional Life

by Jean Fleming

Overview

How Meaningfully are You Living Your One Life?

Jean Fleming was struck with the reality that you only live once. Her exact thought that changed the trajectory of her life was this—what kind of old woman do I want to become? Men and women ages nineteen to ninety will gain practical insight from Jean’s reflections and findings around this question. Using God’s Word as the source of strength and wisdom, Pursue the Intentional Life encourages you to live out God’s purposes in every season.

Thirty-one readings, each ending in a prayer, cover such topics as:

• commitment to a reflective life,
• de-romanticizing the life of faith,
• the ministry of the obituary,
• hospitality: a welcoming life,
• when failure threatens to overwhelm,
• loss and leaving, and more.

Jean demonstrates wisdom and youthful vigor as she shares her personal conversations with God. She offers practical application to help you instill meaning into each day while looking at the big picture of God’s plans and purposes. A restorative book for personal use, Pursue the Intentional Life also makes an insightful group read.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781612910970
Publisher:	The Navigators
Publication date:	11/19/2013
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Jean Fleming is an experienced ministry and Bible-study leader with The Navigators and author of A Mother’s Heart and Feeding Your Soul.

Table of Contents

Foreword 9

Acknowledgments 13

1 Take a Walk with Me: Asking Two Big Questions 15

2 Why I Wrote This Book, How I Plan to Use It, and How You Might Use It Too 19

3 Resolution 52: Commitment to a Reflective Life 25

4 A Prepared Life: The Art of Advance-Work Toward an End 29

5 My Intended Wing: Resolving an Inner Conflict 35

6 Nobody Soars All the Time: De-romanticizing the Life of Faith 41

7 Teach Us to Number Our Days: The Ministry of the Obituary 47

8 Living in Time and Eternity: Phases 1 and 2 53

9 Phase 2: The Gospel from the Other Side 61

10 Glory Days: Enter His Presence 67

11 Phase 1: BeautiFULL-Living in the Fullness of What Christ Won for Me 75

12 The Ministry of Countenance and Spirit: Glorifying God and Blessing Others 81

13 Deep Tracks: A Scaffold of Discipline and Creativity 87

14 Blessed Imagination: Living a Reverent and Kind Life 93

15 Like a Little Child 99

16 Hospitality: A Welcoming Life 105

17 Lifelong Learner: If Not Now, When? 111

18 Looking for Fruit 115

19 Fruitful Every Season 119

20 Bee Tree: Investing in Forever 125

21 Raised Veins: The Body's Ministry to Me 131

22 Wise Reframing: Keeping My Core in Life's Transitions 137

23 Watchfulness: Staying Awake and Alive 143

24 Tripped Up: Drink, Drugs, Sex, Materialism, and Other Dangers 149

25 The Lump: When Failure Threatens to Overwhelm 155

26 Embracing the Cross: Preparing to Drink My Cup 161

27 Growing Sweeter Through Life's Bitter Times 167

28 Loss and Leaving 173

29 Widowhood: What Shape Will My New Life Take? 177

30 Time to Be in Earnest 183

31 Preparing for Death: Stocking the Ammunition Box 189

Notes 195

About the Author 201

What People are Saying About This

Jerry Bridges

A wise person once said, ‘You are going to be what you are now becoming.’ Drawing on her own experience over a number of years, Jean Fleming, who is a godly woman and a gifted writer, helps us see how we can be intentional about becoming the person God wants us to be. This book will be helpful at any stage of adulthood, but it is especially relevant to those of us who are fifty and older.