Waking Up to This Day: Seeing the Beauty Right Before Us

by Paula D'Arcy

Book Overview

Inspiring insights on being awake and aware, in good times and bad, by the author of The Gift of the Red Bird.Centuries ago, Brother Lawrence wrote the spiritual classic Practice in the Presence of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570758492
• ISBN13: 9781570758492
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Orbis Books
• Length: 129 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

A fine, simple addition to any spirituality shelf

Waking Up To This Day offers inspirations and spiritual insights for daily living, from discussions of how to start each day anew and fresh based on 12-Step Program methods to how 'detours' in life have lasting impact and importance. A fine, simple addition to any spirituality shelf.

paula darcy's waking up to this day.

This was just what I needed to read at a time when I was feeling a little down. I found it fresh, wise and inspiring.

Wake up, choose love

Affirming our life as it is right now--no matter how difficult or joyful--D'Arcy guides with poetic insight from the depth of her own experience and reflections, offering an invitation (and challenge) to love, to trust, to be with, to let go. The chapter "Live With An Open Heart: Practice Love" is particularly exquisite. I will share "Waking Up To This Day" with men and women, of all ages. An excellent spiritual guide for our times, D'Arcy writes, "There is no way life is supposed to be. There is only life" (p 57). I am grateful for this book.

thoughts from the Cleokat

Cuts straight to the heart.......lets you know what you already know.........brings it home, how little time we are here and how some attention to just the day is where it's at. It's so simple