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| Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner | 
 enlarge | Author: Frederick Buechner
Publisher: HarperOne
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 9754
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5 x 1
ISBN: 0060698640
Dewey Decimal Number: 242.2
EAN: 9780060698645
ASIN: 0060698640
Publication Date: May 8, 1992
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Daily meditations taken from the works of an acclaimed novelist, essayist, and preacher who has articulated what he sees with a freshness and clarity and energy that hails our stultified imaginations.
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 A literary devotional for the skeptic and believer alike August 22, 1998
61 out of 61 found this review helpful
Frederick Buechner is one of our greatest treasures--a wonderful prose writer, a great story-teller, an insightful theologian. His body of work is as diverse as any writer I've ever heard of--fiction, myth, sermons, lectures, memoirs, lexicons, humor, etc. This book provides a great overview of 30 years of his writing--all in brief daily doses. While some of the exerpts suffer from being pulled out of their contexts, they have been well and carefully chosen, and stand alone well. Buechner's recurring theme is that God exists and acts in our lives today--we just have to learn to listen for him and recognize those acts. Read as a devotional, this book provides many flashes of insight and understanding, and many gentle reminders of the Truth that undergirds our lives.
Amplification of Life January 25, 2001
35 out of 35 found this review helpful
Frederick Buechner articulates the beauty, pain, and irony of life so wonderfully. This book helped me see the mundane, trivial, and routine of my life as a source of joy and a gift of nothing but the grace of God...Buechner is an artist, a poet, a musician of words...This is a great book to "sample" his great works and choose which one of them to read next! Buechner helped me to recognize that the sadness and tragedy of life don't have to be ignored or explained away to retain faith in the goodness of God...We have to appreciate the stark and the empty and the need before we can find a fix or a salve...I can read one of these passages and it stays with me for days...definitely a recommended read, for believers or searchers of any denomination...
An excellent daily devotional December 31, 2003
33 out of 33 found this review helpful
Most daily devotionals that I have worked with in the past have often been sentimental drivel.Buechner's excellent, concise and often poetic writing boldly confronts the daily battles a person of faith encounters. Eschewing simple HALLMARK CARD sentimentality and post-modern sound bite obsession, Buechner lays out a series of daily meditations that comfort, challenge and re-enforce as well as affirm one's faith. I particularly admire Buechner's constant celebration of the purity of silence- the need for listening and contemplation. An excellent daily devotional written by one of our finest contemporary theologians.
Lovely August 13, 2002
19 out of 19 found this review helpful
I return to this book again and again. It doesn't ask that you believe anything in particular. It ranges over all kinds of topics. Buechner gives us his wisdom, wonder, doubt and love in equal and generous measure.I have found his works to be deeply liberating because there is no dogma... mostly there is hope, poetry, some new visions of faith, room to doubt, room to soar... Mostly, he shows us his deep deep humanity. Thank you, Mr. Buechner.
Buechner's Fabulous Autobiographic Readings: Revised October 17, 2003
10 out of 16 found this review helpful
I only thought that I had read Frederick's nearly best words!
While visiting Montreat one summer, I accidentally met the young lady named Stacey_____ who has the unending task of editing and selecting manuscripts to remain in Wheaton's Archives for his legacy. I wish I knew how to reach her...there or at The Chicago Tribune!
This fabulous collection of his readings comes from the hands of his friend George Connor. He was outstanding Prof of Literature at the Univ of Chattanooga when we were students there in the 1950's! His selections from "A Room Called Remember, Wishful Thinking & Whistling in the Dark," are right on target for me!
When he writes, "autobiography becomes a way of praying," I am totally in agreement. Also with his descriptive beauty in using adverbs like..."enigmatically, inexplicably, and realistically, (sprinkled around)... Freudians and Jungians, prophets and poets, philosophers, fortune tellers and phonies all have their own claims about what dreams mean." Not only have I related, but resonated, even reverberated to his words!
Ad lib Note: I have recently found copies of THE FACES OF JESUS-A Life Story -by Fredrick Buechner! The awesome hard-back Cover shows four superb prints of Ancient Faces of JESUS: 1) Galleria Saluda in Turin; 2) Sta Maria di Castillo L'dine; 3) Coptic Museum of Cairo; 4) Art Archiive of Dagli Orti.
All are awesome-fascinating-inspired, unique features as FACES!
First Published by Riverwood Press in Croton-on-Hudson, NY 1974, First Printing, 2005, By Paraclete Press in Brewster Mass. (www.paracletepress.com)
How can I Review in Amazon.com? Write to Paraclete Press?? Respectfully Yours Retired, Chaplain Fred W Hood
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