Making Room for Life
Trading Chaotic Lifestyles for Connected Relationships
By Randy Frazee
Format: Jacketed Hardcover
192 Pages
List Price: $17.99 {CDN:$27.99}
Size: 5-1/2 x 8-1/2
ISBN: 0-310-25016-1
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Synopsis
This thought-provoking book exposes the chaos and pressure of “normal” living and points toward a better life where community and church are authentic, rich, and as close as the neighbors on your street.
Description
What If You Could . . .
- get all your work done by 6:00 p.m.?
- eat dinner with your family every night?
- form deep, satisfying relationships?
- naturally blend the world of church with your everyday life?
- spend hours a week on your hobbies?
You can! Making Room for Life reveals how to make all of these things a reality. Not by working faster or having more gadgets, but by simply choosing a lifestyle of conversation and community over a lifestyle of accumulation.
Randy Frazee's practical, motivating insights call you back to the kind of relationships and life rhythms you were created to enjoy. In Making Room for Life, Frazee shows you how—and why it's so important—to balance work and play, establish healthy boundaries, deal with children's activities and homework, bring Jesus to your neighbors, and build authentic bonds with a circle of close friends.
This thought-provoking book exposes the chaos and pressure of “normal” living and points toward a better life where community and church are authentic, rich, and as close as the neighbors on your street. A life where work, play, service, and even sleep all exist in balance, complementing each other, and where relationships are interconnected rather than disjointed.
Designed to be applied, not merely read, this book includes questions for small group discussion and room to write down your personal thoughts and action plans. Better still, drawing from his personal experience, Randy offers steps toward change at three levels: modest, substantial, and radical. Choose which level will work best based on your circumstances.
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Endorsements
“I'm so excited you picked up this book. In a time when our hectic daily schedules often squeeze the living out of life, Making Room for Life is a godsend. Connection and community are essential to healthy living—not just for us, but for our kids, too. Randy Frazee offers a vision of a life rich in relationships and meaning. Best of all, he provides clear steps for making this vision a reality. Life is a precious gift, so make room for it!”
Ken Blanchard—coauthor, The One Minute Manager ® and Servant Leader
“Randy Frazee's Making Room for Life is the right book at the right time for a frazzled, frantic, and unfulfilled populace. It is a book of sound practical advice from a wise pastor who knows people's needs. The author urges readers to join a small group of fellow seekers, in which lives can be shared at a deep level, and the life-transforming discovery made that God is nearer and dearer to us than we can possibly imagine.”
George Gallup Jr.—chairman, The George H. Gallup International Institute
“This practical book is a timely word for a complex culture. Randy's concept of reorganizing our time in a way that flows with creation is powerful and challenging. I highly recommend that you read this work, if you have the time! That's the point!”
David A. Anderson—Pastor, Bridgeway Community Church , President, The BridgeLeader Network
“Randy Frazee has made a significant contribution to one of the most important conversations among thoughtful Christians today: ‘How do we live lives in harmony with God in the context of our world?'”
Doug Pagitt—Solomon's Porch
“I read Making Room for Life sandwiched in the middle seat of a crowded airplane. By the time I finished part 2, ‘The Solution: Restructuring Our Relationships and Time,' I noticed that my breathing patterns had become deep and more relaxed. Making Room for Life is the ‘Mirror of Erised' for life and community. For all those ‘Harried Potters' out there—take heed.”
Joseph R. Myers—author, The Search to Belong: Rethinking Intimacy, Community and Small Groups (emergentYS)
“Imagine if we actually did what Randy suggests. <Sigh> It's doubtful we will—but it would be revolutionary!”
Mark Oestreicher—president of Youth Specialties; publisher of the emergentYS line of resources for emerging church leaders
“‘I want to simplify my life, but simplifying is way too complicated!' If that's how you feel, you need to read Making Room for Life . If you feel that our modern western pace of living is inhospitable to human life, if you're getting fed up with what Randy Frazee calls ‘the severe fragmentation and discontinuity of the American lifestyle,' if you have a sneaking suspicion that modern ‘conveniences' are giving you more time to enjoy life less ... then cancel an appointment immediately and let Randy help you discover life without breathlessness.”
Brian McLaren—pastor, author, fellow in emergent
