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Winner of a 2006 Logos Book Award! Do you long for a deep, fundamental change in your life with God? Do you desire a greater intimacy with God? Do you wonder how you might truly live your life as God created you to live it? Spiritual disciplines are activities that open us to God's transforming love and the changes that only God can bring about in our lives. Picking up on the monastic tradition of creating a rule of life that allows for regular space for the practice of the spiritual disciplines, this book takes you more deeply into understanding seven key disciplines along with practical ideas for weaving them into everyday life. Each chapter includes exercises to help you begin the practices--individually and in a group context. The final chapter puts it all together in a way that will help you arrange your life for spiritual transformation. The choice to establish your own sacred rhythm is the most important choice you can make with your life.

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Too many people are suffering with CFS (Christian Fatigue Syndrome). Ruth Haley Barton is herself a CFS survivor, and she shares here in a warm and personal yet lucid and thoughtful writing style how she has been restored to life's sacred rhythms. My experience mirrors hers, and I will enthusiastically recommend this book widely both as preventative medicine and as needed therapy. --Brian McLaren, speaker and author of A New Kind of Christian

Ruth Barton confirms what you've suspected--there is more to life than what most of us are living. This volume serves as a great primer for helping us get in touch with and follow our longings--all the way to God! --Reggie McNeal, author of The Present Future and A Work of Heart

I think this book will be of enormous value to individuals and groups who are seeking to more fully ground all dimensions of their often fragmented and hectic daily lives in the liberating ground of God's transforming presence, with the help of a rhythm of vital spiritual practices that can keep us available to that loving presence. --Tilden Edwards, author of Sabbath Time and Living in the Presence

[Barton] describes the practices with the gentle touch of an understanding and knowing mystic. --Publishers Weekly, January 29, 2006

Blessed is the person who has some voice in her or his life saying what Ruth Haley Barton says. Sacred Rhythms is a book I have treasured. --Trey Turner, The Baptist Standard, June 9, 2008

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