Everyday Sacred by Sue Bender

Everyday Sacred by Sue Bender

Sue Bender takes the lessons she learns in her own life to weave a stunningly warmhearted story of our universal quest to live each day more fully.

Her struggle is one keenly felt in today's intensely pressured and time-starved world: how can we experience our lives fully in whatever we are doing at the moment - whether cleaning the kitchen, faced with a situation that frustrates us, or momentarily exhilarated by some new fortune that's befallen us. Inspired by the image of the empty 'begging bowl' that Zen monks would start each day with to solicit enough food to nourish and sustain them, Bender discovers for herself - and shows us in the process - how to find that which is 'just enough' to fill our lives each day. The lessons along Bender's path of 'doubt and hope' reveal that each step is a place to learn and that 'we can seek the sacred everywhere - in our homes, in our daily activities, and hardest to see, in ourselves'.

Pure and Simple: A Woman's Trip to the Amish (HarperSanFrancisco) is written by Sue Bender. The book was a best-seller in the New York Times. Sue's passion with Amish quilts led her to live with the Amish in their seemingly ageless world, which she describes as a landscape of enormous inner peace. This honor, which is rarely given on outsiders, taught her about simplicity, devotion, and the joy that comes from loving oneself. Bender discusses the insights she gained while living among the Amish in Everyday Sacred: A Woman's Journey Home (HarperSanFrancisco: now in its sixth printing), a book that speaks to our need to make each day actually count.

She recounts her attempt to transfer the joyous knowledge and simplicity she found among the Amish back to her frantic, too-much-to-do days back at home. Bender discovers for herself, and in the process teaches us, that small miracles may be discovered everywhere'in our homes, in our everyday activities, and, most difficult to recognize, in ourselves.Profiles and interviews with Bender, as well as book excerpts, have appeared in numerous national publications, including Reader's Digest, The Washington Post, Ladies' Home Journal, The Chicago Tribune, The Utne Reader, and The New York Times. Sue Bender was born in New York City and obtained her BA and MA from Harvard University's School of Education. She taught English at the Berlitz School in Switzerland and high school in New York.

She went on to get her master's degree in social work from the University of California, Berkeley. Bender was the founder and director of CHOICE: The Institute of the Middle Years during her active years as a family therapist. Sue Bender is a ceramic artist and a sought-after lecturer across the country, in addition to being an author and former therapist. She is the mother of two grown sons and resides in Berkeley, California, with her husband Richard.

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ISBN 13	9780062512901
ISBN 10	0062512900
Title	Everyday Sacred
Author	Sue Bender
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Year published	1996-08-16
Number of pages	176
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