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Help! I just don't have enough time!
IF THIS SOUNDS LIKE YOU, KNOW THAT YOU ARE IN GOOD COMPANY. There is a time famine out there - a pervading sense that we have more to do than we can possibly get done in the time we have - and most of us live with some version of it. The trick, of course, is to move from famine to feast, from a sense of not having enough time, to a sense of freedom, enjoyment, and fulfillment within the time we have.
Say the words “time famine” and people immediately know what you mean. Some people call the time famine “time poverty,” or the “time suck.” Others call it the war against rest. Still others just whine, “I don't have enough time. I never have enough time.” We could imagine these complaints as fear of mortality. Of course we don't have enough time. We get the days we get. But more pervasively, these complaints are practical statements. I have more to do than I have time in which to do it. I want more than I can get in the time I am allotted. That is the time famine. It involves our consent to a scarcity metaphor for life, one that we set up ourselves by not defining what we mean by more, less, and enough.
In Time: From Famine to Feast, Donna Schaper offers encouragement and advice on how to leave the land of famine and find a seat at the feast. Discussing and then moving beyond the systemic sources of the time famine, Schaper's ultimate goal is to explore "the inner way, the way we have internalized the commandments of multiple systems and feel bad or wrong or in violation or out of compliance if we don't obey our orders to be busy, active, connected, overworked, and time famished."
  This is a spiritual journey that will require us to be honest about just how starved we really are, as well as navigate our "work-family time dilemma," discern what "coheres" us, begin to use "spiritual technologies," and get comfortable with play. Of course, practice is required, so Schaper provides 52 of them - a "spiritual practice," in fact, for each week of a year designed to bring us to our place at the feast.
Each of the six chapters in this adult study includes questions for discussion and reflection. A perfect resource for Lent or adult study, any time of the year.
The clock - shown above, in the detail below, and on the front and back covers of the book - is at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, France.
Published by Wood Lake Publishing Inc., January 4, 2016
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WHAT ADVANCE READERS HAVE TO SAY
Donna Schaper writes about life in a way that challenges, excites and ultimately inspires.
- Douglas Beane, Playwright
Time: From Famine to Feast came just in the knick of time! There is not a conversation that goes by where I don't find myself talking with someone about how busy, stressed, overwhelmed, inundated and frenzied they feel. Technology has resulted in a new unspoken rule that says we are to be constantly available and never turn off. But the world is ready for some new rules - rules that protect our spirit, our fun and our health. I love Donna's totally practical and spiritually based view. And I love her challenge to all of us to shift our perspective and to make different choices. Challenge accepted! I am already crafting my new time feast!
- Carissa Reiniger, Founder & CEO, Silver Lining
Reading Time: From Famine to Feast felt like sitting down over a cup of tea to work through some of my deepest concerns about how to live a meaningful life with one of the wisest women I know. Packed full of poignant observations about how we can befriend, tend and spend our most precious resource, Donna Schaper leads us on a spiritual quest for "personal coherence" with wit, humor and some serious "aha" moments. This insightful, practical and efficient book is a must-read for anyone seeking new ways to dig out of your deadening time hole and "calmly plot your resurrection."
- Jennifer Crumpton, Author of Femmevangelical: The Modern Girl's Guide to the Good News
Donna Schaper is the Nora Ephron of religious writers. She has voice, voice, and more voice. Time: From Famine to Feast will change your view of time, and quite possibly the quality of your life. This is one of the best books for congregational teaching that I have ever read. It has the power to change lives. The title says it is about time. It is really about life and meaning. You will experience more of both if you heed its wisdom.
- Rev. Alexander E. Sharp, Executive Director, Clergy for a New Drug Policy
In response to the oft-quoted lament of "never having enough time," we have the wisdom of a Twenty-first century Solomon. In Time: From Famine to Feast Donna Schaper deftly leads the reader on an important spiritual journey that turns this lament on its ear with grace, authenticity and humor. At its end one is equipped to live perhaps the time of their lives. Opportune and ideal for both individual and group reflection, anyone who engages in Time: From Famine to Feast will find doing so time well spent.
- Rev. Freeman L. Palmer, Associate Conference Minister, New York Conference United Church of Christ
ABOUT THE AUTHOR, DONNA SCHAPER
Rev. Dr. Donna Schaper, formerly at Coral Gables Congregational Church in Miami and before that at Yale University, is Senior Minister for Judson Memorial Church on the corner of Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village, New York City. Schaper's purpose in life is to provide spiritual nurture for public capacity. She likes to "kick hope into high gear" and show people what is possible through the magnificence of human community strategically focused and spiritually filled. Schaper is no stranger to controversy, having led her Miami congregation through an institutional transformation that opened it to gays, Jews, anti-war protests, significant membership growth and fund and fun raising on behalf of the poor and outcast. Her 31 published books tell the tale of her interfaith marriage, her pioneer as an ordained woman, her quiet spirituality and noisy activism.
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