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Make a List: How a Simple Practice Can Change Our Lives and Open Our Hearts

Marilyn McEntyre

What if writing a list could literally change your life?

From the ancient book of Numbers to the latest clickbait listicle, list-writing has been a routine feature of human experience. Shopping lists. To-do lists. Guest lists. Bucket lists. Lists are everywhere you look.​

But what if our lists did more than just remind us to buy milk and take out the trash? What if the practice of list-making could help us discover who we truly are and even point us to our deepest joys, hopes, and desires?​

In Make a List teacher, writer, and wordsmith Marilyn McEntyre shows readers how the simple act of writing a list can open doors to personal discovery and spiritual growth. Deepening her reflections with abundant writing prompts and real-life examples, McEntyre turns the humble list into a work of art--one that has the power to clear minds, open hearts, and change lives.

Book Details

  • Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
  • Publish Date: Nov 26th, 2021
  • Pages: 202
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 6.93in - 4.96in - 0.63in - 0.40lb
  • EAN: 9780802882257
  • Categories: Personal Growth - GeneralChristian Living - Personal GrowthSpirituality

About the Author

McEntyre, Marilyn: -

Marilyn McEntyre is the author of multiple books on language and faith, including What's in a Phrase? Pausing Where Scripture Gives You Pause (winner of a Christianity Today 2015 book award in spirituality), Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies, Speaking Peace in a Climate of Conflict, Make a List: How a Simple Practice Can Change Our Lives and Open Our Hearts, and Start with a Word: On the Craft and Adventure of Writing. She teaches writing at Western Theological Seminary and New College Berkeley and coaches writers.

Praise for this book

"Goes well beyond the to-do list to invite new and creative ways of thinking and doing. . . . Readers of all kinds, from type A veteran list-makers to those whose blood pressure rises at the thought of making a list, will find much useful information here."
-- Publishers Weekly

"In this lively, creative, and pleasure-filled book, Marilyn McEntyre presents the making of lists as a path into a wonder-filled pluriverse. . . . Whether you tend to scribble a list on a scrap of paper or regularly fill your journal with them, you will find some great ideas here!"
-- Spirituality & Practice

"You do not have to go too far into the book to discover that McEntyre has created a whole new paradigm shift, moving lists out of being simply to-do taskmasters and into being a tool to help us delve deeper into our lives and indeed into our very souls."
-- The Presbyterian Outlook

"A perfect book for yourself or to give as a gift."
-- San Francisco Book Review

"Marilyn McEntyre reminds me of the power of language--to heal and instruct us, to challenge and shape us."
-- Shauna Niequist

"Brings lively attention to the way words can open multiple doors of memory, imagination, and reflection."
-- Richard Rohr

"Encourages, guides, and directs. . . . Marilyn McEntyre embodies simple, patient kindness in her writing."
-- Michael Card

"Just one week into living with Make a List, I can already tell that this small book, which both invites me into a new practice and reframes one of my existing daily habits as a spiritual practice, will be life-giving and edifying."
-- Lauren F. Winner

"A companion who can abide amid our chaos, a sage who can choose the right moment to share a word, and a prophet who can say the thing we shrink from yet need to hear."
-- Samuel Wells