An Introduction: Short Flights and Quick Returns
One Who Paid Attention: C. S. Lewis Looking Along a Beam
1. Paying Attention: The Hours of Our Lives
One Who Paid Attention: Simone Weil on a Postage Stamp
2. The Birthing Hour: Time Before Time
One Who Paid Attention: Vincent Donovan--the Masai Chief, the Missionary and the Lion God
3. Daybreak: The Hour of Beginnings
One Who Paid Attention: The Teacher Who Took Off His Hat
4. Prime Time: Our Root System
One Who Paid Attention: My Spiritual Director Dog
5. Active Life: A Slower Pace in a Faster World
One Who Paid Attention: Kierkegaard?s Lanterns, Fireworks and Stars
6. The Noonday Demon: Our Distractible Selves
One Who Paid Attention: How Mother Teresa Kept Going
Holy Stillness: An Interlude
7. When Shadows Come: Darkness Comes Early
One Who Paid Attention: Jerry Sittser Trying to Catch the Sun
8. Lighting the Lamps: The House with Golden Windows
One Who Paid Attention: Nouwen, a Restless Prophet
9. Grandfather Time: When Evening Comes
One Who Paid Attention: Hwee Hwee Tan, Becoming What We Look At
Epilogue: The Journey Home
Appendix: Observing the Hours
Notes
In Attention to Gratitude
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