Flunking sainthood a year of breaking the Sabbath, forgetting to pray, and still loving my neighbor

"... Jana Riess shares a year-long quest to become more saintly by tackling twelve spiritual practices, including fasting, fixed-hour prayer, gratitude, Sabbath-keeping, the Jesus Prayer, and generosity. Although she begins with great plans for success, she finds to her growing humiliation that she...

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Main Author: Riess, Jana
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Brewster, Mass. : Paraclete Press, c2011.
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245 1 0 |a Flunking sainthood :  |b a year of breaking the Sabbath, forgetting to pray, and still loving my neighbor /  |c Jana Riess. 
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300 |a x, 179 p. ;  |c 21 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-179). 
505 0 |a Choosing practices -- Fasting in the desert -- Meeting Jesus in the kitchen, or not -- Lectio divination -- Nixing shoppertainment -- Centering prayer, er, the Jesus prayer ... Look! A squirrel! -- Unorthodox Sabbath -- Thanksgiving every day -- Benedictine hospitality -- What would Jesus eat? -- Seven ... five ... three times a day will I praise you -- Generosity -- Practice makes imperfect. 
520 |a "... Jana Riess shares a year-long quest to become more saintly by tackling twelve spiritual practices, including fasting, fixed-hour prayer, gratitude, Sabbath-keeping, the Jesus Prayer, and generosity. Although she begins with great plans for success, she finds to her growing humiliation that she is failing--not just at some practices, but at every single one. What emerges is a vulnerable story of the quest for perfection and the reality of failure, which turns out to be a valuable spirtual practice in and of itself"--From publisher description. 
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