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Quick! Go out and buy this book! If you are a vicar, buy a dozen, and give them away. If the Church were served by more books like this, we would all be the better. --John Armson, Church Times
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Whatever situation we find ourselves in, this down-to-earth book will help restore a sense of puropse. Alan Hargrave draws upon 'Rules of Life', from Benedict to Iona, to enable us to think seriously about the pattern of our living. Through absorbing stories, honest and often very funny accounts of his own personal struggles, and the provision of many useful exercises, he aims to help us find our own 'Rule of Life' - one that will not only sustain us, but allow the light that may have gone out of our eyes to shine once more! And as the energy we need to look beyond ourselves returns, so we will discover new and creative ways to express the love of God to our wonderful, needy world.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Living Well
Finding a `Rule of Life' to Revitalize and Sustain Us
by Alan Hargrave
Our lives are so easily dominated by unhealthy demands on our time and attention and all kinds of writers encourage us to nurture a better "work-life balance", Alan Hargrave has crafted a challenge for this modern contagion. He draws heavily on the timeless creed of St Benedict and combined helpful influences from as wide a field as Taizé to the Ionian Community.
Through a combination of well chosen stories from his own varied life, frank and, at times, amusing anecdotes, Hargrave leads the reader to address their personal circumstances, take stock and suggests a variation in lifestyle that is more wholesome and better balanced. More than this, we are encouraged to create a personal, modern "Rule of Life" that is God-honouring and personally fulfilling.The book comes with practical guides to answer enquiring questions to help focus on one of today's most common ailments. This is warm-hearted fresh practical lifestyle theology. Moving and compelling in it's understated challenge.
Finding a `Rule of Life' to Revitalize and Sustain Us
by Alan Hargrave
Our lives are so easily dominated by unhealthy demands on our time and attention and all kinds of writers encourage us to nurture a better "work-life balance", Alan Hargrave has crafted a challenge for this modern contagion. He draws heavily on the timeless creed of St Benedict and combined helpful influences from as wide a field as Taizé to the Ionian Community.
Through a combination of well chosen stories from his own varied life, frank and, at times, amusing anecdotes, Hargrave leads the reader to address their personal circumstances, take stock and suggests a variation in lifestyle that is more wholesome and better balanced. More than this, we are encouraged to create a personal, modern "Rule of Life" that is God-honouring and personally fulfilling.The book comes with practical guides to answer enquiring questions to help focus on one of today's most common ailments. This is warm-hearted fresh practical lifestyle theology. Moving and compelling in it's understated challenge.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Living Well: Finding A `Rule of Life' to revitalise and sustain us
Alan Hargarve(2010)
For a little book (136 pages) this one packs quite a punch. Ostensibly one mans distillation of the core characteristics of religious rules of life (both monastic and lay) and their potential application to the life of anyone seeking to follow Christ, this is so much more than that précis suggests.
Acknowledging the pivotal role of the Rule of St. Benedict in western Christianity the author roves over a number of rules, notably those of the emerging "new monastic" communities in the U.K (including: - The Community of St. Etheldreda, Ely Cathedral of which the author is Canon Missioner and also Ely Cursillo Rule of Life, The Northumbria Community, Iona and Moot) all of which are summarised in helpful appendices.
Rather than academic analysis the author seeks essences and illustrates them with his own life and search for a "rule". Anecdotes abound and are relevant, enlightening and above all human. A gentle humour pervades the discussion.
Much has recently been discussed about male spirituality. This book is not written for men specifically but what becomes evident is that it is written by a spiritual man. As a man I found that helpful and interesting, I wonder why?
At the end of each section (all of which are succinct and small enough to make them eminently usable for group work) are questions for self or group analysis. Did I do these? No. Then again, I never do, perhaps that's why my own personal written rule of life is still largely in my head and not on paper,
The layout is untidy and although the author references well (while wearing his obvious learning and wide reading lightly) and includes relevant web directions it is a mark of the text that by the end of it you don't mind because you realise the messiness saves paper and so helps creation sustain itself in the image of God. No small recommendation.
Accessible, readable and tasting of The Spirit, this is one book you really should read.
Alan Hargarve(2010)
For a little book (136 pages) this one packs quite a punch. Ostensibly one mans distillation of the core characteristics of religious rules of life (both monastic and lay) and their potential application to the life of anyone seeking to follow Christ, this is so much more than that précis suggests.
Acknowledging the pivotal role of the Rule of St. Benedict in western Christianity the author roves over a number of rules, notably those of the emerging "new monastic" communities in the U.K (including: - The Community of St. Etheldreda, Ely Cathedral of which the author is Canon Missioner and also Ely Cursillo Rule of Life, The Northumbria Community, Iona and Moot) all of which are summarised in helpful appendices.
Rather than academic analysis the author seeks essences and illustrates them with his own life and search for a "rule". Anecdotes abound and are relevant, enlightening and above all human. A gentle humour pervades the discussion.
Much has recently been discussed about male spirituality. This book is not written for men specifically but what becomes evident is that it is written by a spiritual man. As a man I found that helpful and interesting, I wonder why?
At the end of each section (all of which are succinct and small enough to make them eminently usable for group work) are questions for self or group analysis. Did I do these? No. Then again, I never do, perhaps that's why my own personal written rule of life is still largely in my head and not on paper,
The layout is untidy and although the author references well (while wearing his obvious learning and wide reading lightly) and includes relevant web directions it is a mark of the text that by the end of it you don't mind because you realise the messiness saves paper and so helps creation sustain itself in the image of God. No small recommendation.
Accessible, readable and tasting of The Spirit, this is one book you really should read.
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