A Day of Rest: Creating a Spiritual Space in Your Week - Softcover

Hickman, Martha W

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0380797275 ISBN 13: 9780380797271

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks, 1999

Synopsis

A Day of Rest offers ways you can find time for yourself, your soul, and your family life. Aided by personal stories, anecdotes, inspirational quotes, recommended rituals, and using the weekly tradition of honoring the Sabbath as a day of rest, the author explains uncomplicated ways to reintroduce serenity into your harried life. Finally, this book offers fifty-two innovative ideas--one for each week of the year--to rejuvenate your spirit. From solitude to frolic, from sharing a favorite childhood book with your children to chronicling your own random thoughts, you can develop and adapt these personal rituals to meet your needs and those of your family.

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About the Author

M A R T H A W . H I C K M A N was the author of more than twenty books, including The Growing Season, Fullness of Time, I Will Not Leave You Desolate, and Such Good People, and the children’s books When Andy’s Father Went to Prison, And God Created Squash, and Eeps Creeps, It’s My Room.

A native of Massachusetts and a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Mount Holyoke, she lived in the South for many years. To her writing she brought the additional perspective of being a wife, mother, grandmother, and sometime editor and teacher. Her work continues to serve as an invaluable source of inspiration well after her passing.

 

From Publishers Weekly

Lately, a great many voices have been telling us how to restore a sense of quiet in our hectic lives. Hickman joins in with one simple suggestion: honor the Sabbath. Whether it is the Muslims' Friday, the Jews' Shabbat on Saturday or the Christians' Sunday, the day of rest is an integral part of "that ancient programmed rhythm of life designed to keep us steady in the midstream of life without the constant danger of being swept off our feet." Focusing primarily on Jewish, Christian and (to a lesser degree) Islamic traditions, Hickman does acknowledge that people can find spiritually beneficial moments of calm outside an institutional religious community. She takes a look at the evolution of the seven-day week and considers how the peacefulness of "Sabbath time" can be brought to certain moments of any day, as well as to certain seasons of the year. The real purpose of the book, however, is to offer readers suggestions for making the day of rest rewarding. To that end, Hickman shares stories from her own life and from others, suggests ways to take advantage of a day off and offers ideas for contemplation.
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About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0380797275
• ISBN 13: 9780380797271
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144