Abundant Simplicity
Discovering the Unhurried Rhythms of Grace
Which activities give you energy and connect you with God? Do you know what behaviors are life-draining for you, separating you from God?Simplicity is about choosing the engaging, relational life we were meant to live. It means shedding obligation and pretension. It means spending
- time
- energy
- money
in ways that help us become clear-headed. It means being intentional about what we do and how we live. These choices allow God's power to move through us and bless others as we have space to do good.In each chapter Jan Johnson provides small experiments with simplicity as well as questions for discussion or reflection to get you started.Come and discover the unhurried rhythms of grace.
Jan Johnson is the author of over twenty books and more than a thousand magazine articles and Bible studies. A speaker, teacher and spiritual director, she writes primarily about spiritual formation, social justice and living with purposeful intentionality. Her books include Abundant Simplicity, Hearing God Through the Year (editor), Enjoying the Presence of God, and the Spiritual Disciplines Bible Study Series. She holds a DMin in Ignatian spirituality and spiritual direction from the Graduate Theological Foundation and lives with her husband in Simi Valley, California.
1 Abundant Life With God
2 Coping With Plenty
3 What Do You Really Want?
Interlude: What Simplicity Might Look Like
4 Fewness and Fullness of Words
5 Living Light In a Land of Plenty
6 A Generous, Not Grasping, Life
7 The Intentional, Unhurried Life
8 Putting the "Free" in "Free Time"
9 Everyday Life Simplicity
10 Worry No Longer Necessary
Acknowledgements
Notes
"In a world where abundant has come to mean prosperity and simplicity is often equated with scarcity, Jan Johnson proposes an alternative. She introduces us to a biblical lifestyle of fullness--full in ways that only God can fill. In our materialistic, over-scheduled, stress-filled world . . . we need to tame the monster called 'more.' Abundant Simplicity is a monster-tamer."
"Jan Johnson writes in a clear style that seeks to make spirituality--following God?s Spirit in daily life--more accessible to the reader. She challenges readers yet expresses sympathetic patience with the difficulty of practicing spiritual disciplines." weniger anzeigen expand_less
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- Veröffentlichung 05.04.2011
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- ISBN 9780830868636