Book Description
365 FUN, CREATIVE ACTIVITIES TO STIMULATE YOUR PRESCHOOLER EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR
This book contains 365 activities (one for each day of the year) for three- to six-year-olds using things found around the home. It shows parents and day-care providers how to:
- Save money by making your own paints, playdough, craft clays, glue, paste, and other arts and crafts supplies.
- Prevent boredom during even the longest stretches of indoor weather with ideas for indoor play, kitchen activities, and arts and crafts projects.
- Stimulate a child's natural curiosity with fun reading, math, and science activities.
- Encourage a child's physical, mental, and emotional growth with ideas for music, dance, drama, and outdoor play.
- Celebrate holidays and other occasions with special projects and activities.
- Keep children occupied during long trips or cross-town errands.
The Preschooler's Busy Book is written with warmth and sprinkled with humor and insight. It should be required reading for anyone raising or teaching preschool-age children.
Customer Reviews:
LOVE this book.......2007-09-26
This book was a sanity saver for a mom with 3 year old twins. How neat to have a resource to turn to on rainy days, snowed in days or days when things are going chaotic. This book is full of all kinds of activities and suggestions on how to occupy your little ones. I love it!! The activities are so easy to do and they are so creative. There are recipes, games and instructions to make homemade toys. These are just a few of the many materials covered. I recommend this book for anyone who has young children!
Fabulous Idea Book.......2007-06-11
I bought this book for my husband and I to come up with simple activities for our 3 1/2 year old. We have tried several activities and my daughter loves them. They are simple, use common, everyday household stuff and are inexpensive to do. It is a great basic activity book.
it was okay.......2007-05-30
there are better ones out there to spend your money on.It did get here on time and in conditon.
great ideas for preschool aged kids.......2007-02-20
this is a great idea book...some repetition and basic ideas...but, sometimes you just need a simple project and you and your kids can make it your own.
preschooler's busy book.......2006-08-30
This is a great book. I have a busy 5 year old and it can be a challange to keep her busy. She loves the activities, mom is cool again:)
Book Description
365 fun, creative activities to stimulate your toddler every day of the year.
This book contains 365 activities (one for each day of the year) for one-and-a-half to three-year-olds using things found around the home. It shows parents and day-care providers how to:
- Prevent boredom during the longest stretches of indoor weather with ideas for indoor play, kitchen activities, and arts and crafts projects.
- Stimulate a child's natural curiosity with entertaining math, language, and motor-skills activities.
- Encourage a child's physical, mental, and emotional growth with ideas for fun music, food, water, and outdoor activities.
- Keep toddlers occupied during long car trips or cross-town errands.
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The Toddler's Busy Book is written with warmth and sprinkled with humor and insight. It should be required reading for anyone raising or teaching toddlers.
Customer Reviews:
It's OK.......2007-09-13
This is a nice book to sit and flip through to get your head around what to do with a toddler - beyond reading , going for walks and all the usual. I found that most of the activities didn't appeal to me as-is. Some required preparation that was a craft project in itself, involving long hours of gluing, cutting, pasting. Others are ok for a ten-minute thing but get old (say, batting balloons around). So I used the book as an inspiration for my own ideas. Also, I found that many activities are oriented toward entertaining the toddler. I like the approach of engaging them in a developmental activity that they could pursue and enjoy independently once they get the hang of it. My favorite books tend to be like Montessori Play And Learn. Even though that one focuses on a slightly higher age group, I found many more activities there that were appropriate for my 18-mo-old than the Toddler Busy Book.
Lots Of Ideas for Fun.......2007-07-19
Not the best in the world, I am sure, but its not a bad book either. We, as a creative family, keep many of the suggested items on hand (and I would recommend that anyone with small children keep a storage area filled with craft supplies), so it was nice to have some ideas of what to do with my 2 year old. While some of the ideas ARE very basic, sometimes the brain of a frazzled parent needs a jump start, and while you may say "well duh" after reading it, it might not be something you would have thought of right off to begin with.
We have enjoyed lots of activites with this book, and while its not arranged by age groups, parents should be somewhat aware of what their child as an individual will be able to do/enjoy. If you have a two year old who likes to put small objects in their mouth then dont do those activities-its that simple! But the amount of games and ideas are good for a variety of stages in your toddlers development and can be great spur of the moment activities.
Need some improvement.......2007-05-08
The book suggest a lot of great ideas but I found it a little bit disorganized as the activities mentioned in the book are grouped under different categories but some of the activities good for a toddler of 3 while some of them are just suitable for a toddler of 1. I need to decide which are suitable for my little daughter.
Terrible!.......2007-04-13
I thought based on many of the reviews this book would be a creative fun way to help my toddler develop and flourish. It is TERRIBLE! Unimaginative. Literally, one of the activities is making a "noodle" necklace - not with macaroni, but here's the big twist - with ziti. What a waste of money - I could have enjoyed a couple of lattes. You will be sorely disappointed in this book if you have ANY resources (memories from childhood, TV, internet, half a brain...)
Not that great.......2007-04-10
I have a very active almost 2 year old at home. This book seems to be written for people with little or no imagination whatsoever!! Many of the activities we have already tried, some of them my son came up with on his own! Also, you better have a huge amount of storage for all of the craft/used items you need to play some of these games!
Book Description
Every group can benefit from team-building exercises. But sometimes it's not practical to embark on a full-scale training initiative. Now, supervisors, managers, and team leaders have 50 team-building activities to choose from, all of which can be implemented with no special facilities, big expense, or previous training experience. Readers will find engaging exercises for:
* Building new teams and helping teams with new members * Dealing with change and its effects: anger, fear, frustration, and more * Recognizing individual efforts and team accomplishments * Finding creative ways to work together and solve problems * Increasing and improving communication * Leveraging diversity and individual differences to meet team goals * Keeping competition healthy and productive within the team
Instructions and tips for follow-up and variations are included for each activity, and an additional chapter provides valuable advice for working through unexpected difficulties in team-building.
Customer Reviews:
Impressive.......2007-09-17
This book really gives good ideas for team building exercises. Not only does it gives you ideas, but also advises on how to manage the activity with an end in mind to get the most out the the exercise.
Great for ice breakers and quick teambuilding.......2007-05-15
We found it easy to make these exercises fit into our industry, fairly well. We were looking for quick ways to get people to work together, from different departments and to respect the value in each other as well as understanding the big picture. Working individually can't happen in some of the exercises. Great job! Thanks for this book.
Excellent career resource.......2007-05-07
We use this in my college library. The teachers and students love it.
Superb resource book.......2007-05-03
I had this series of books before - loaned them out at work and never got them back (go figure!). Happy to have found them again here.
Quick Teambuilding Activities.......2007-03-11
Lots of quick, easy to adapt, team building activities to use at your next meeting. I have already used several with minor adaptations and much success! Gets the team energized and ready to move!
Book Description
A 1989 Campus Life Award of Merit winner!Most of us have trouble finding time to pray. There's church and school and neighborhood and job and friends and recreation. And
then the crises hit! Time for prayer seems an impossible luxury.As a pastor, Bill Hybels knows hundreds of people with schedules like this. Yet in his own life he has made the hard discovery that prayer doesn't happen on the run. He decided he was too busy
not to pray.Hybels's accessible introduction to prayer has already helped over 400,000 readers develop a rich and regular prayer life in the midst of life's busyness. Now, in this revised and expanded 10th anniversary edition, he includes new insights from his years of ministry and his own spiritual journey. He shows how to slow down to pray, listen to God, respond to what we hear, practice the presence of God and overcome prayer barriers. His fun and practical book offers the resources we need for growing, ongoing experiences in prayer.
Customer Reviews:
Great Encouragement to Slow Down and Pray.......2007-09-18
"Too Busy Not to Pray" is an excellent challenge by Bill Hybels to Christians everywhere to take time out of their busy lives to commune more with the Lord who loves us enough to want to spend time with us.
The book is around 150 pages and has 13 chapters with the following titles:
1. The Adventure of Prayer
2. God Is Willing
3. God Is Able
4. How to Pray Authentically
5. A Pattern For Prayer
6. Mountain-Moving Prayer
7. The Mystery of Unanswered Prayer
8. Prayer Busters
9. Slowing Down to Pray
10. The Importance of Listening
11. How to Hear God's Leadings
12. What to Do With Leadings
13. Living in God's Presence
The book is easy to read and yet contains great information and challenges for the reader to slow down and pray. Quite frankly, I have tried this several times in my own life and have found that I can get much more done in God's power than I ever could through my fleshly self-effort. It works!
Read and be encouraged. Highly recommended.
too busy not to pray.......2007-06-08
informative and basic; essentials are talked about in this book.
Too Busy Not to Pray.......2007-05-14
Fast Service and the book is great recommend it highly.
Great study guide.......2007-03-21
Bought this book for myself and my two sisters. Now, i'm leading a Sunday morning book study at my church and have 15 other people reading it. This book is a great read for all of us who just need to "slow down" and incorporate daily prayer into our lives.
Too Busy Not to Pray.......2007-03-18
Great book to give you reason to pray and encourage you to pray. It explains reason thoroughly and completely
Book Description
In the 22 years since its publication, Japanese for Busy People has won acclaim worldwide as an effective, easy-to-understand textbook, either for classroom use or for independent study. Now, in its first revision in more than a decade, the series is being redesigned, updated, and consolidated to meet the needs of today's students and businesspeople who want to learn natural, spoken Japanese as effectively as possible in a limited amount of time.
Customer Reviews:
Japanese for Busy People 1.......2007-06-27
I am using the book in conjunction with a class at a local college. The book is proving to be very useful. I received the book in good condition and I am very pleased with it.
Reconsider before buying.......2007-06-21
Not for the casual tourist who will vacation in Japan. Using this book, you will not learn the necessary phrases for a short trip to Japan. If you want to learn common phrases, do not buy this book. It was designed for serious students of the language.
On that note, it is unbelievable that a text book of this caliber would be Romanized. If you are a serious student, then take this review seriously: learn hiragana immediately. Do not buy this book; buy the kana version of this book, and begin studying hiragana while you are waiting for it to arrive in the mail. If your college forces you to buy the Romanized version (like mine did), do future students a favor by requesting that they switch over to the kana version.
Although my review of this book sounds harsh, do not be mislead. I like the Japanese for Busy People text book series, and, like all serious students of the Japanese language, despise Romanized books. Buy the kana version.
Best Japanese Book Ever!!.......2007-04-11
This is the best book to learn Japanese. It is very helpful...If you want to learn Japanese, you should buy this book.. Thanks amazon for offer it.
Book Description
Perfect for today's hectic lifestyles, this quick-and-easy cookbook will help home cooks free up extra time without sacrificing great homemade meals. Distinctively different, this cookbook features dishes that can be prepared fast and left unattended while the cook answers an e-mail, spends time with the kids (or the guests), or simply relaxes. More than 100 delicious recipes include everything from main dishes and sides to breads and desserts. There are recipes for the crock-pot, stovetop, and oven. Unlike typical "quick" dishes, these emphasize freshness and flavor and avoid highly processed foods. With Hands-Off Techniques, Stress Savers, Eye Appeal ideas, useful tips on ingredients and equipment, plus timesaving recipes, Hands-Off Cooking is the cookbook busy people can't wait to get their hands on.
Customer Reviews:
My favorite cookbook this year!.......2007-07-19
This cookbook is great for cooks at any skill level. The recipes are approachable, yet far from standard "quick-meal" fare. Lots of influences, including Thai, Indian and North African lend the recipes tons of flavor. Even though the author offers plenty of ideas to make the dishes even more convenient (buying a cooked chicken or diced onions, for example) the recipes often call for ingredients I usually have on hand, eliminating special trips to the grocery store. Whereas some of my cookbooks sit on my shelf gathering dust, this one is already dog-eared and food stained!
Hands-Off Cooking:Low-Supervision, High-Flavor Meals.......2007-05-17
I have made a good number of the recipes in this new cookbook. They all seem easy to make and then they turn out so delicious. The Vegetarian Chili has become a regular at our house. Last night I made Fish Vercruz; it was scrumptious!!! so I decided I had to spread the word about this great book.
Hands Off Cooking.......2007-05-12
I admit, and all my friends KNOW that I am not a cook, but this book looked like something that may help me make some simple dishes. To my suprise, the recipes are EXTREMELY tasty and simple !! I actually am begining to look forwaed to getting in the kitchen, and not only serve my family excellent food, but also to company !! Thanks so much Sue
The Perfect Book for Busy People Who Love Good Food.......2007-05-12
Every recipe I have tried so far has resulted in a truly superior meal...and true to the book's mission, prep is easy and not labor-intensive.
If you are extremely busy but value a great meal at home, you need to buy Hands-Off Cooking. I have already picked up copies for a couple of friends.
It's the best cookbook I have read/used in a long, long time.
Adding Variety to my Routine.......2007-05-07
I tend to work to much and get in a food rut, repeating the same meals until I can't stand it. I just tried my fourth recipe from this book, another success - the lamb meatloaf, and it continues to prove to have been an excellent purchase.
I buy the ingredients the night before I actually try the recipe. If I try to buy the same day then I get home too late to make the recipe. I like that the recipes seem to be just what the title promises - hands off. I do the prep and then some laundry or gardening - then dinner.
Amazon.com
Every young child should be introduced to this story, as great a classic as its predecessor, The Very Hungry Caterpillar. This colorful picture book describes a spider's day. Blown onto a farmyard fence, she starts to spin a web. The other animals ask if she wants to play, but in every case "the spider didn't answer. She was very busy spinning her web." The book is touchable: elements including the strands of web are embossed on the pages and you can follow them with your fingertips. But the best thing by far is Carle's familiar, yet still breathtaking skill as an illustrator. Especially in this large 11.5-by-8.5-inch format, his cow, goat, and dog (just to mention three favorites) capture the essence of each animal in a way few artists can hope to approach. (Baby to preschool) --Richard Farr
Book Description
A "very" special package for a much-loved classic! Eric Carle's The Very Busy Spider, in a handsome miniature hardcover edition, comes boxed with a charming plush version of Eric Carle's Spider. Appealing to children of all ages, the plush Spider is from another Eric Carle classic.
Customer Reviews:
Boring and repetitive.......2007-08-13
I love Eric Carle's art and several of his other stories, but this one is really boring and repetitive. There's not enough variety to the images, the spider comes across as a real pill who has no interest in other creatures, and the story line is dull. Skip this and go for the chameleon or caterpillar or polar bear.
Not so great........2007-08-09
Not one of Eric Carle's best. As usual, the illustrations are fabulous, but the story didn't interest our littleone.
Cute Book, But Not Our Favorite Eric Carle Book.......2007-07-08
My 21 month old loves Eric Carle books. She liked this one as well, but like others have mentioned it doesn't seem to hold her attention nearly as well as other Carle books do. Her favorites are "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and "The Very Lonely Firefly". The illustrations are as bright and colorful as they are in the other books though and the story is short enough for most toddler's to sit through.
Mom's favorite.......2007-05-06
No gimmicks, lights, or sounds here so it's not as fascinating for my son. I try to jazz it up a little bit with the animal noises and different animal voices which my son seems to enjoy. This is a good one for bedtime.
Very busy spider.......2007-01-19
Perfect for the preschool set. All five of my grandkids love this book. Helps mitigate the "look, a spider...let's kill it" response to bugs.
Book Description
Are you too busy to pay much attention to your money? Do you worry that maybe you haven't been doing the right things? This book is for you, from Jane Bryant Quinn, the most trusted voice in personal finance today. Her classic bestseller, Making the Most of Your Money, guided a generation toward smart and sensible financial choices. Here she strips away the extras, choosing the best financial ideas and products available today. They're all you need to create a successful and long-lasting financial plan. It's money management the No Worry way.
To start with, she tells you to forget all the complicated stuff the financial industry sells. You don't need it, it costs too much, and some of it is downright bad. It's designed to make the banks, brokers, and insurance companies rich, not you.
The best ideas (a super-short list!) are simple, low in cost, and easy to use. They're also sophisticated and smart. The strategies shown here are followed by some of the most successful planners and money managers around today, yet they're something everyone can understand. They'll give you what you need from your money -- regular savings, financial security, long-term investment growth, personal control, and best of all, peace of mind.
Once you've set up a No Worry plan, you won't have to pay much attention to it. The choices you'll find here are all good ones. All you have to do is arrange for automatic payments and contributions and then get on with the rest of your busy life. You can focus your energies on your job, family, leisure, and friends, secure in the knowledge that your finances are okay.
Here's what you'll do on the No Worry plan:
- Save more money without feeling pinched
- Get rid of debt the automatic way
- Keep yourself safe, with the right amount of insurance at the lowest cost
- Zero in on the right mortgage, every time
- Pick the best college savings plan for your kids
- Understand your finances, in ways you never did before
- Find the smartest and simplest ways of investing money, to earn superior returns over the long run
The investment ideas alone will open your eyes to the newest strategies for accumulating wealth (without making big mistakes!). Jane Bryant Quinn will change the way you think about money. She has the answers busy people need.
Download Description
Are you too busy to pay much attention to your money? Do you worry that maybe you haven't been doing the right things? This book is for you, from Jane Bryant Quinn, the most trusted voice in personal finance today. Her classic bestseller, Making the Most of Your Money, guided a generation toward smart and sensible financial choices. Here she strips away the extras, choosing the best financial ideas and products available today. They're all you need to create a successful and long-lasting financial plan. It's money management the No Worry way.
Customer Reviews:
Financial decisions made easier.......2007-07-12
This book helped me to decide how to invest my retirement funds, and it is written simply and with definite recommendations. That was a great help and made my job of investing so much easier. I sent a copy to my daughter because I found it to be so helpful.
Finance.......2007-05-24
Great overview - wish I had read this when I was younger! Now I am going to
give it to both my children.
Excellent book...arrived in excellent condition.......2007-05-14
I originally borrowed this book from the library but after reading through it, I knew it was a title I wanted to own. As the title suggests, the book provides simple financial strategies, but they are by no means dumbed down or oversimplified. The author (Jane Bryant Quinn) stresses the importance of automating not only investing, but short-term saving and debt reduction as well.
I saved on this item by ordering one that contained a publisher's mark but was in otherwise new condition. The book arrived in exactly the same condition as was described. This turned out to be an inexpensive way to add this title to my personal library.
Financial Direction.......2007-05-10
This is a must-read for the person who is looking for some commonsense advice on managing their finances. Jane is straight to the point, and gives some great recommendations for investing
Excellent source for demystifying the investment world.......2007-03-31
Written in a friendly, no nonsense tone, Smart and Simple Financial Strategies for Busy People is an excellent resource for people who are trying to look ahead in their financial planning. Quinn covers a variety of investment options(mutual funds, indexed funds, CD's, stocks, etc) explaining the values and disadvantages of each. She makes recommendations and provides examples for a good investment portfolio for a variety of specific life circumstances.
I found her information on pre-paid college tuition fascinating(I'd never heard of such a thing!) and her descriptions of differnt IRA's immediately pertainent.
Let's face it, if you are considering this book, you are looking for the right way to invest your money and secure your financial future. This book provides the specifics for how much you need to invest and where in order to reach your desired retirement income. It provides the tools to do the calculations for your own circumstances, and addresses the life changes that could affect your planning.
Most importantly, this book delivers on simple strategies. You don't need to be Warren Buffet to implement these techniques. Once you open your accounts, this is something that can be managed once a month or once a year and can be done online in minutes. Electronic maintenance makes management so easy you'll wonder why you didn't start earlier. More importantly, your future self will thank you.
I highly recommend this book for people in the early stages of financial planning. I've purchased this book as gifts for family members and friends because it is such a good resource. My SO and I used this book as leap stone for financial discussions. Most importantly, I've used the techniques myself, to start my own retirement portfolio, savings account for home purchase, and a college fund for my unborn children.
Book Description
Six oclock looms, and dinner has to be on the table prontothe kids dont care if youve just come home from work exhausted and out of ideas or spent the afternoon ferrying them from school to playdate to tae kwon do practice. The Scramble to the rescue! Each weeks worth of recipes is utterly organized, easy-to-prepare and designed to please both adult tastes and finicky childrens palates. Everything is homemade, with a clever reliance on just enough prepared or packagedbut never fakefoods. Inventive, flavorful, and healthy are Aviva Goldfarbs watchwords; her Scramble recipes include: Recipes that can be prepared in thirty minutes or less Weekly menus so parents need only shop once a week One vegetarian main course per week Meals that kids can help prepare Fun foods for lunchboxes, after-school snacks, or weekend get-togethers Complete nutritional information for each recipe Dinners like honey-glazed salmon, Asian turkey burgers, and Moroccan Chicken that will please the whole family.
Customer Reviews:
Healthy Cooking - Quick and Easy .......2007-10-16
Great cookbook. I bought it as soon as it was available. I use at least 3 - 4 recipes per week. PLUS...I subscrible to the The Scrambles weekly newletter! Gotta try it out, recipes delivered to your email every Wednesday!
All of these recipes are quick, healthy and I am now getting my 5 and 7 year olds to try new foods! The recipes are so easy - And my favorite...they only require a handful of ingredients that are found in most grocery stores.
Not too helpful.......2007-09-15
I like the overall menu plan she does for each season, but, here in Hawaii, we don't really have "seasons". The concept is good, though.
My favorite cookbook.......2007-09-10
I am the busy mother of a toddler and also a subcriber to Aviva's Six O'Clock Scramble weekly newsletter. I am also the owner of many, many cookbooks and this is my favorite one for easy weeknight meals. All the recipes are healthy, use fresh ingredients (no canned soups), and always turn out great. The recipes are so good that I even use several of them for entertaining (Spiced Chicken with Maple Butter Glaze and Warm Chicken Salad with Mixed Greens are two of our favorites). I highly recommend this book as well as the Scramble newsletter!
Best Cookbook Ever!.......2007-08-23
This is the best cookbook I have ever tried (and I have tried a LOT!). Finally, a cookbook that is so easy to use, complete with online printable shopping lists, and the food tastes great! My picky 3 year old eats it, my gourmet-cooking husband loves it and I do too. The recipes are healthy, delicious and easy to prepare. Yes, you can prepare food fast without it being processed, who knew?
Everyday Cookbook.......2007-08-17
I've used this cookbook every day for two weeks now and every recipe was a hit - even with my 2nd grader. The recipes are simple, healthy, quick and tasty. I love that there are lots of vegetarian options that don't involve obscure grains and tofu.
Book Description
In today's world, with its relentless emphasis on success and productivity, we have lost the necessary rhythm of life, the balance between work and rest. Constantly striving, we feel exhausted and deprived in the midst of great abundance. We long for time with friends and family, we long for a moment to ourselves.
Millennia ago, the tradition of Sabbath created an oasis of sacred time within a life of unceasing labor. Now, in a book that can heal our harried lives, Wayne Muller, author of the spiritual classic
How, Then, Shall We Live?, shows us how to create a special time of rest, delight, and renewal--a refuge for our souls.
We need not even schedule an entire day each week. Sabbath time can be a Sabbath afternoon, a Sabbath hour, a Sabbath walk. With wonderful stories, poems, and suggestions for practice, Muller teaches us how we can use this time of sacred rest to refresh our bodies and minds, restore our creativity, and regain our birthright of inner happiness.
Customer Reviews:
Sabbath.......2007-10-02
This is a fabulous book. It gave me new insight into why Sabbath (rest) time is so important. It fed me with information that motivated me to change a few things in my life. Wayne Muller is a wonderful author who is interesting and inspiring.
Nourishment for the human spirit, using rest to return to delight.......2006-09-03
This book arrived yesterday, and I stayed up late reading it last night and this morning. I could hardly put it down. Many of the thoughts hit me as so profound, that I had to pause to think before I could continue reading.
"In the relentless busyness of modern life, we have lost the rhythm between work and rest. All life requires a rhythm of rest." (p. 1) "When we live without listening to the timing of things -- when we live and work in twenty-four-hour shifts without rest -- we are on war time, mobilized for battle. Yes, we are strong and capable people, we can work without stopping, faster and faster, electric lights making artificial day so the whole machine can labor without ceasing. But remember: NO LIVING THING LIVES LIKE THIS." (p. 69)
The book highlights the benefits of rest for our spirit, our bodies, our relationships -- as well as gives reasons why people don't rest. We feel that more work is better, we are afraid of what we will hear in the silences if we pause, we think we have more to give if we toil on without rest (when the opposite is often true, that rest breaks leave us with more to contribute). The book is also full of simple stories of people who have found themselves after rest, and simple thought-provoking poems. Muller also devotes some thoughts to simple play; and yes, even adults should play.
This book left me thinking of all that being an adult professional can cost the human spirit. Some of my own happiest memories are of being a child, sprawled on the grass on a hot summer afternoon, and staring up at the white clouds against a blue sky and finding shapes in the clouds. When do we ever do this, as a modern society? Simply pause, and spend a day doing nothing but play and rest?
Muller gives us some strong reasons to pause, to resort our values, to treasure our relationships and our bodies and spirits, and to go out again with more to offer our world.
Not the TRUE meaning of the Sabbath.......2006-02-21
While this book gives practical examples of how to rest and find renewal by observing the Sabbath, it does not touch the true meaning of the Sabbath. As another reviewer mentioned, the value of this book was highly diminished for me when the author failed to emphasize the singly Judeo-Christian roots and values of the Sabbath. Instead, Muller takes a worldly approach to the psychology and therapy of observing the Sabbath and reflecting on life.
This is the third book on the Sabbath that I have read, and it has by far been the least enlightening on truly why God has called us to rest and keep the Sabbath holy. While Muller's tips are helpful, I found similar ideas in a better book, "Keeping the Sabbath Wholly" by Marva Dawn (and she still preserved the deep & holy meaning of the Sabbath).
Instead of Muller's book, I would highly recommend reading "Keeping the Sabbath Wholly" by Marva J. Dawn.
Slow Down.......2005-11-22
This book is a exploration into the concept of "Sabbath" and its importance in world religions. Muller describes Sabbath rituals in the Jewish faith and discusses scriptural references to the Sabbath (from Christian and Buddhist, as well as Jewish texts), especially those concerning why it is celebrated at all. He argues that we all need time set aside as a Sabbath for rest, happiness, and consecration. He embellishes the text with poems and stories about the Sabbath practices of friends. Many of the chapters close with a "Practice" section, in which Muller describes actions you can take to put the ideas from the chapter into practice.
In an early chapter, Muller declares that all religions have some form of Sabbath. This didn't quite sound correct to me-while Muslims often gather in a mosque together for Friday noon prayers, the day is otherwise unlike a Judeo-Christian Sabbath, since there is no feeling that worshipers should refrain from work or commerce on that day. And Buddhists and Hindus certainly don't have a regular day set aside each week for religious observance and rest. But Muller goes on to explain that he is taking the term "Sabbath" to mean a time set aside from ordinary worldly pursuits, and that in a more general sense "Sabbath" need not refer to an entire day, but could be just a few minutes in which the mind is engaged in meditation, prayer or devotion. By this measure, the five daily Muslim prayers, Buddhist meditation, and Hindu pujas would all qualify as Sabbath time. Muller argues that such time is necessary to appreciate fully our capabilities as caring people.
Reading this book has opened my eyes to new ways of celebrating the Sabbath. Muller argues that the most vital activity to engage in on the Sabbath is not necessarily attending church, but rather, pausing all ordinary activities to contemplate the Divine or Life itself. He notes that feeding, dressing, and escorting family members to a church service, then struggling to keep them quiet during the service is not necessarily in keeping with the intention of rest and meditation. And he describes ministers who, since they must work on Sundays, keep their own Sabbath on a different day of the week. He explains how important it is to have time alone, when one doesn't need to provide or others or even interact with them, so that one can better concentrate on devotional matters. Regardless of your faith, practicing the ideas described in this book can you help form a much stronger connection to the center of your being.
The goal of life is not to go faster!!!!.......2005-08-31
I really really liked his thoughts on the Sabbath and caused me to put this day into perspective for my life. Simply well written and thought out. A life changing book.
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- Secret Knowledge (New and Expanded Edition): Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters
- Special Effects: An Oral History--Interviews with 37 Masters Spanning 100 Years
- Squee's Wonderful Big Giant Book of Unspeakable Horrors
- Strange Stains and Mysterious Smells: Based on Quentin Cottington's Journal of Faery Research
- Superman: The Man of Tomorrow Archives, Vol. 1 (DC Archive Editions)
- Taylor's Weekend Gardening Guide to the Winter Garden: Plants That Offer Color and Beauty in Every Season of the Year (Taylor's Weekend Gardening Guides)
- The Annotated Cat: Under the Hats of Seuss and His Cats (Picture Book)
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Recommended Books
- Shooting the War: The Memoir and Photographs of a U-Boat Officer in World War II
- Godspeed
- Two Trains Running: A Novel
- A Romance of Two Worlds
- Art of Bird Photography: The Complete Guide to Professional Field Techniques
- Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering
- Gaijin Shogun : Gen. Douglas MacArthur Stepfather of Postwar Japan
- The Harlequin Years: Music in Paris 1917-1929
- Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750
- Mexico Business Intelligence Report
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The Toddler's Busy Book
Science Play!: Beginning Discoveries for 2-To 6-Year-Olds (Williamson Little Hands Series)
The Little Hands Art Book/Exploring Arts & Crafts With 2-To 6-Year-Olds (Williamson Little Hands Series)
The Little Hands Big Fun Craft Book: Creative Fun for 2- To 6-Year-Olds (Williamson Little Hands Series)
Arts & Crafts Busy Book : 365 Activities
Health o Meter HDC100-01 "Grow with Me" Teddy Bear Scale for Babies and Toddlers
Braun IRT 4020 ThermoScan Ear Thermometer
