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Make a List: How a Simple Practice Can Change Our Lives and Open Our Hearts

Publisher:
, 2018
ISBN: 9781467449595

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Overview

What if writing a list could literally change your life?

From the ancient book of Numbers to the latest clickbait listicle, list-writing has been a routine feature of human experience. Shopping lists. To-do lists. Guest lists. Bucket lists. Lists are everywhere you look.​

But what if our lists did more than just remind us to buy milk and take out the trash? What if the practice of list-making could help us discover who we truly are and even point us to our deepest joys, hopes, and desires?​

In Make a List teacher, writer, and wordsmith Marilyn McEntyre shows readers how the simple act of writing a list can open doors to personal discovery and spiritual growth. Deepening her reflections with abundant writing prompts and real-life examples, McEntyre turns the humble list into a work of art—one that has the power to clear minds, open hearts, and change lives.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Living by Lists
1. Why Make a List?
2. The Way of the List-Maker
3. Play Lists
Appendix: A Few Final Lists for your General Enjoyment

“Goes well beyond the to-do list to invite new and creative ways of thinking and doing. . . . Readers of all kinds, from type A veteran list-makers to those whose blood pressure rises at the thought of making a list, will find much useful information here.”
Publishers Weekly
 
“In this lively, creative, and pleasure-filled book, Marilyn McEntyre presents the making of lists as a path into a wonder-filled pluriverse. . . . Whether you tend to scribble a list on a scrap of paper or regularly fill your journal with them, you will find some great ideas here!”
Spirituality & Practice

“You do not have to go too far into the book to discover that McEntyre has created a whole new paradigm shift, moving lists out of being simply to-do taskmasters and into being a tool to help us delve deeper into our lives and indeed into our very souls.”
The Presbyterian Outlook

“A perfect book for yourself or to give as a gift.”
San Francisco Book Review
 
“Marilyn McEntyre reminds me of the power of language—to heal and instruct us, to challenge and shape us.”
— Shauna Niequist
 
“Brings lively attention to the way words can open multiple doors of memory, imagination, and reflection.”
— Richard Rohr
 
“Encourages, guides, and directs. . . . Marilyn McEntyre embodies simple, patient kindness in her writing.”
— Michael Card
 
“Just one week into living with Make a List, I can already tell that this small book, which both invites me into a new practice and reframes one of my existing daily habits as a spiritual practice, will be life-giving and edifying.”
— Lauren F. Winner
 
“A companion who can abide amid our chaos, a sage who can choose the right moment to share a word, and a prophet who can say the thing we shrink from yet need to hear.”
— Samuel Wells

Product Details

  • Title : Make a List: How a Simple Practice Can Change Our Lives and Open Our Hearts
  • Author: McEntyre, Marilyn
  • Publisher: Eerdmans
  • Publication Date: 2018
  • ISBN: 9781467449595
 
Marilyn McEntyre is the award-winning author of several books on language and faith, including Where the Eye Alights, Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies, Speaking Peace in a Climate of Conflict, When Poets Pray, Make a List, Word by Word, and What's in a Phrase? Pausing Where Scripture Gives You Pause, winner of the 2015 Christianity Today book award in spirituality.

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    $14.29

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