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Permission to Ponder: Contemplative Wisdom for the Spiritually Distracted is unavailable, but you can change that!

God gives us permission to meditatively ponder, even in the midst of our fragmented existence. He invites us to ''listen, that you may live.'' Many Christians are distracted and dissatisfied. The external demands of life grip us, while our inner walk with God becomes ever more superficial and thin. Is there hope for authentic connection with God in a world of distractions, or must we be resigned...

We have more information, but, typically, less wisdom. Tracy Balzer begins this fine book with a poem by T. S. Eliot, wherein the writer laments, “Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?” (italics mine). We live in the Information Age, but we have lost knowledge and wisdom, and are no longer Living. Superficiality is epidemic in the current age of information and entertainment. Superficiality is the