Donna Schaper

Never Enough Time (eBook, ePUB)

A Practical and Spiritual Guide

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Most of us struggle with the "time famine"-the pervasive feeling of never having enough time. Whether we work three jobs or none, have many children or none, or live in a huge city or a small town, most of us have the feeling there is always more to do than we're able, more time required than we can give. In Never Enough Time,Rev. Donna Schaper helps us think through the practical and spiritual elements of the time famine and helps us instead aim for a feast. Schaper's advice centers around our mind-set-understanding both the structural and personal reasons we feel so pressed, clarifying what's important to us or not, and setting realistic expectations, while enriching the time we have. The book goes beyond the idea of "Sabbath keeping" to offer suggestions for all parts of life-particularly the busy moments. Schaper draws on her years ministering to people across all walks of life to show that the time famine cuts across race, class, and gender lines to touch almost everyone. She offers practical and spiritual suggestions that won't magically give us more time, but can help us live better with the time we have.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781442266391
• Artikelnr.: 52382315

Autorenporträt

Donna Schaper has been an ordained minister and activist for over fifty years. She has written thirty-nine books and hundreds of essays, features, and op-eds, including a humor series, "The Dolly Mama Does Religion." She has also worked with endowments for churches and nonprofits both large and small. For a decade she wrote an environmental column for the National Catholic Reporter eco-blog. For the last two decades, she has written daily devotionals for the United Church of Christ website that reaches 35,000 readers. She currently hosts a monthly conversation on the Brooklyn Rail site, called the Brooklyn Trail.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Chapter 1: Why Don't We Have Enough Time? Chapter 2: The
Importance of Numbers Sizing Up Your Time Trouble Chapter 3: What If Time
Were as Important to You and Your Life as Water . . . and You Didn't Know
It? Chapter 4: Time Famine as a Really Good First World Problem Chapter 5:
Knowing What's Important: Elemental Approaches to Time Chapter 6: Doing
Something New Chapter 7: The Turn toward the Practical Chapter 8: The
Importance of Numbers Chapter 9: Speckness Chapter 10: Facing Facts as We
Face God Chapter 11: That Pesky First World Problem Conclusion Selected
References