Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner [Paperback]

Frederick Buechner (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 8, 1992

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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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."--The New York Times Book Review

About the Author

Frederick Buechner, author of more than thirty works of fiction and nonfiction, is an ordained Presbyterian minister. He has been a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and was honored by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His most recent work is Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC’s of Faith.

Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: HarperOne; 1st edition (May 8, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0060698640
• ISBN-13: 978-0060698645
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.1 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #75,934 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Frederick Buechner is the popular author of such nonfiction titles as Telling the Truth, Wishful Thinking, and Peculiar Treasures. The New York Times Book Review described his recently published memoir, The Sacred Journey, as a "beautifully successful experiment." In addition to The Final Beast, which was originally published in 1965, Mr. Buechner is the author of ten other novels, including the bestselling A Long Day's Dying and, most recently, Godric. He makes his home in Rupert, Vermont.

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70 of 70 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A literary devotional for the skeptic and believer alike, August 21, 1998

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This review is from: Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner (Paperback)

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.

36 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent daily devotional, December 31, 2003

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This review is from: Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner (Paperback)

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.

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lovely, August 12, 2002

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This review is from: Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner (Paperback)

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.