Keri Wyatt Kent - GodSpace: Embracing the Inconvenient Adventure of Intimacy with God
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Heres how-in the life you already live-you can make time and space for God.
Godspace offers seven practices that help busy Christians pay attention to God. They help us align our sometimes messy daily lives with our spirituality. And they strengthen our most important relationships, giving our lives meaning, significance, and purpose. Its not holding a set of beliefs, reading the Bible, going to church, or even praying that determines how we connect with God. Its our pace of life. When we live hurried and distracted lives, we miss the chance to experience the intimacy we desire with God. Experience God more deeply and live more joyfully by exploring these seven spiritual practices:
With abundant wit, humorous anecdotes, and authentic sharing of her own joys and struggles, Keri Wyatt Kent guides us toward a deeper and more meaningful faith in the midst of our overcrowded, cluttered lives. A lay pastor at Willow Creek Community Church, where she has been a member for thirty years, Kent is the author of eleven books. She speaks at events and retreats around the country. Learn more at www.keriwyattkent.com.
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Copyright 2017 by Keri Wyatt Kent
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2017941991
ISBNs: 978-1-4789-7071-2 (trade paperback), 978-1-4789-7072-9 (ebook)
E3-20180211-JV-PC
We have filled our homes with stuff, our calendars with activities, and our hearts with a desire for more. Keri Wyatt Kents GODSPACE invites us to declutter our hearts, our homes, and our calendars in order to make room for the inconvenient wonder of Gods presence. Kent tells stories from her own life and offers practical suggestions on how we can open ourselves up to Gods work in our homes, our communities, and the world. With humor, insight, and concrete examples, Keri Wyatt Kent has written a book that encourages me to make meaningful changes that will enable less space for disappointment and more space for God.
Amy Julia Becker, author of A Good and Perfect Gift and Small Talk
GODSPACE is at once deeply spiritual and handily practical. Through personal stories, biblical application, and tried-and-true wisdom, Keri Wyatt Kents book opens our hearts and minds to make space for God in the everyday.
Caryn Rivadeneira, author of Grit and Grace: Heroic Women of the Bible and Broke: What Financial Desperation Revealed about Gods Abundance
GODSPACE is destined to become a spiritual classic, one of those books I keep on my shelf to reread and review whenever I need a spiritual boost. It is both inspirational and practical, encouraging and challenging. From the very beginning, Keri Wyatt Kent sets out to help the reader see everyday life soaked with the presence of God. She then demonstrates practical applications of spiritual disciplines in lovely, whimsical ways. A great book to study with others or give to anyone who yearns to feel the presence of God.
Dale Hanson Bourke, author
In a noisy, distracted culture, the word mindfulness frequently gets thrown around as a remedy for anxiety and disconnection. But what does it mean to be mindful? In her new book, Keri Wyatt Kent does much more than promote a more mindful way of living. She details seven specific spiritual practicesincluding critical thinkingthat give us the chance to slow down, become more aware of the gifts and grace around us, and draw closer to the Divine. This is a beautiful, intelligent booka gift!
Jennifer Grant, author of Wholehearted Living, Love You More, and When Did Everybody Else Get So Old?
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Where is the space for God?
Spiritual disciplines like prayer, study, and solitude have been recommended as ways to connect with God, dive deeper spiritually, grow in faith. These practices would be great, if we had the time, right?
When I first came back to church, after a brief but spectacularly unsatisfying year or two of postcollege wandering, I wanted a deep spiritual life. God hungry, I craved more than an obligatory daily quiet time could provide. I chafed under the odd legalism of evangelical subculture, longed for a richer experience of faith, a way to embrace mystery and contemplation. Finding myself at a large church, I joined a small group where we read and discussed both Dallas Willards The Spirit of the Disciplines and Richard Fosters Celebration of Discipline, comparing them side by side. I was kind of the wild child of the group, but I felt loved and accepted. We talked about practices like solitude, prayer, fasting, and so on. I loved and needed both the community of the group and these disciplines. I eagerly scheduled days at Catholic retreat centers, dabbled with fasting (until the night I passed out at church from not eating all day), and even began writing books about spiritual practices. Exploring deeper spirituality, ancient paths rediscovered, spiritual transformation, and contemplation fed my soul.
Such ancient practices can connect us to God, enliven our souls. But its been said that the trouble with finding a way to God is that we grow to love the way more than we love God. Our practices can help, or hinder. My own spiritual practices drew me closer to God, yet tempted me to pride. I could easily feel quietly superior to those who didnt practice their faith in the same way I did. My delight in discovering a more contemplative faith had a shadow side, which looked down on those who had not yet explored what I considered to be a better way to relate to God. Id become just a little judge-y sometimes, which threatened to undo all the ways in which I had grown deeper. A day at the monastery fed my soul. My pride, however, unwittingly starved it. Thankfully, leaning into these practices offers a gentle self-correction. When I got quiet, Id become painfully aware of my own judgmental attitude, mourn my own pride, realize how far I had to go.
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