ATTENTIVENESS: Paying Attention—An Invitation To Practice The Hours by Leighton Ford
From The Attentive Life Observing the hours can be a helpful practice for us in learning to pay attention to God throughout our days. Further, the hours can also be an illuminating way to reflect on the seasons or passages of our lives. I invite you to explore with me as we pay attention to how God has been and is at work in each of the “hours” we have lived. Our word hour goes back to the Greek word, hora, which, David Steindl-Rast points out, originally meant more than a unit of time. It was “not a numerical measure,” he writes, “but a soul measure.” Isn’t it true that we usually think of the seasons of the year less in terms of the dates they begin and end than in terms of their effect on us: the cold of winter, the [...]