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- English
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About this book
Lent is about more than going to church on weekdays and giving up chocolate or social media. It's also a time to form one's heart and mind through study and prayer. In Where the Eye Alights, Marilyn McEntyre offers forty short meditations, based on excerpts from Scripture and poetry, that guide readers on a devotional journey from Ash Wednesday through Holy Saturday. As in lectio divinaâthe spiritual practice of reading Scripture repetitively and meditativelyâMcEntyre invites us to notice words that may give us pause and summon us to reflection. This book calls our attention to how the Spirit speaks through phrases that can open doors to deep places for those willing to sit still with them.Â
"Lent is a time of permission," says McEntyre. "Many of us find it hard to give ourselves permission to pause, to sit still, to reflect or meditate or pray in the midst of daily occupationsâmost of them very likely worthy in themselvesâthat fill our waking minds and propel us out of bed and on to the next thing. We need the explicit invitation the liturgical year provides to change pace, to curtail our busyness a bit, to make our times with self and God a little more spacious, a little more leisurely, and see what comes. The reflections I offer here come from a very simple practice of daily meditation on whatever has come to mind in the quiet of early morning."
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Preface
- Schedule of Readings
- Day 1: Remember that you are dust âŚ
- Day 2: Into the wilderness
- Day 3: Watch and pray
- Day 4: Repentance and rest
- Day 5: Broader than the measures of the mind
- Day 6: Like birds hovering
- Day 7: Every riven thing
- Day 8: Centering first
- Day 9: Unfolding
- Day 10: A people prepared
- Day 11: By every word
- Day 12: Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his
- Day 13: Their humble little souls
- Day 14: Going about our business
- Day 15: Like pollen or manna
- Day 16: A way of knowing
- Day 17: Love in the open hand
- Day 18: Weâll pass it on to you
- Day 19: Where we walk
- Day 20: Loving listening
- Day 21: âI donât have all the time in the world, but I have all nightâ
- Day 22: Getting the news from poems
- Day 23: Could I have a word?
- Day 24: Suffer the little children
- Day 25: Weep with those who weep
- Day 26: Dulce et decorum
- Day 27: Riding on the wind
- Day 28: Recognition and epiphany
- Day 29: Evils done on our behalf
- Day 30: Prayer is a place
- Day 31: And the Spirit of God came upon him
- Day 32: Imitation of Christ
- Day 33: Too much with us
- Day 34: A multitude keeping festival
- Day 35: Money changing
- Day 36: What is common to mankind
- Day 37: Whom shall I fear?
- Day 38: Different from all other nights
- Day 39: Stations of the Cross
- Day 40: The harrowing of hell