Her words can help us grasp what my grandfather learned through a lifetime of commonsense faith-and a lot of sweeping: The 'new life into which we're being baptized is lived out in days, hours, and minutes. But Warren admirably explores these themes from both a theological and practical perspective. Liturgy of the Ordinary isn't the first book written in praise of prosaic moments, and Warren's isn't the first voice to counsel slowing down. We would do well to slow down for a bit and hear her out. And we must allow these small, daily habits to help us reimagine some of the big stuff-otherwise it will just be small enclaves of quotidian mysterylovers within the larger structures that inhibit us from receiving the gift of the ordinary from God's hand and being shaped to seek the good of others in this world., Warren's message flies in the face of our culture's love of distraction and pursuit of extreme sensation. To live in the vision that Warren is offering-to find sacredness in the everyday practices of life-will require that we engage with these and other institutional realities in our midst.
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