Sacred Rhythms

Arranging Our Lives for Spiritual Transformation

The Transforming Center Set

By Ruth Haley Barton

(hardcover)

Product Details

Line: Formatio
Length: 192 pages
Size: 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches
Binding: hardcover
Published: February 2006

ISBN-10: 0-8308-3333-1
ISBN-13: 978-0-8308-3333-7
IVP Order Code: 3333

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Spiritual Formation

"Too many people are suffering with CFS (Christian Fatigue Syndrome). Ruth Haley Barton is herself a CFS survivor, and she shares here--in a warm and personal yet lucid and thoughtful writing style--how she has been restored to life's sacred rhythms. My experience mirrors hers, and I will enthusiastically recommend this book widely--both as preventative medicine and as needed therapy."

"Ruth Barton confirms what you've suspected--there is more to life than what most of us are living. This volume serves as a great primer for helping us get in touch with and follow our longings--all the way to God!"

"Our natural tendency is to push, work longer and strive. In a kind, compelling and beautiful voice Ruth Haley Barton invites us to listen to an inner pulse that can be heard only when we are quiet. The path is one that Ruth has walked with honesty and integrity. The fruit of her labor is a sweet call to know our lives need not be harried or harbor fruitless exhaustion."

"Ruth Haley Barton offers much wise, sane, concrete help for people who are ready for the 'more' of God amidst their busy lives, and want a better way to arrange their lives to receive God's transforming presence. She clearly spells out an excellent rhythm of classical spiritual practices that can keep us open and available to God's transforming actions in and among us. She grounds these practices in our own deepest desires, connecting those desires with God's desire for our well-being. She shares some of her own personal experiences as a sometimes struggling Christian in an honest and inspiring way. She gives very helpful guidelines for using the book within a group of people who are seeking to create better conditions in their lives to receive God's transforming presence.

I think this book will be of enormous value to individuals and groups who are seeking to more fully ground all dimensions of their often fragmented and hectic daily lives in the liberating ground of God's transforming presence, with the help of a rhythm of vital spiritual practices that can keep us available to that loving presence."

"[Barton] describes the practices with the gentle touch of an understanding and knowing mystic."

"Blessed is the person who has some voice in her or his life saying what Ruth Haley Barton says. Sacred Rhythms is a book I have treasured."