Discover an accessible, five-step framework for writing a rule of life with award-winning author Jen Pollock Michel, who transforms this ancient practice into a grounded way of living faithfully in a distracted world. A rule of life isn't a rigid list of spiritual disciplines that makes you feel guilty when you fail. It's a grounded way of living faithfully in the chaotic world we inhabit. Drawing from years of leading spiritual formation workshops, Jen Pollock Michel helps you:
- Keep company with God-Establish practices that cultivate ongoing conversation with the One who sustains your life.
- Name your givens-Honestly assess your current season, roles, and limitations instead of fighting against them.
- Attend to your desires-Examine what your heart truly longs for as an important step toward faithful response.
- Articulate faithful habits-Develop specific, sustainable practices for your relationships, work, and daily rhythms.
- Review and revise-Create systems for ongoing reflection and adaptation as life changes.
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Jen Pollock Michel is the award-winning author of five books: Teach Us to Want (Christianity Today's Book of the Year), Keeping Place, Surprised by Paradox (Christianity Today's Book of the Year Award of Merit-Beautiful Orthodoxy), A Habit Called Faith, and In Good Time (Canada's Word Guild Book of the Year Award). Jen is a sought-after contributor to publications like Christianity Today, The Christian Century, The Gospel Coalition, Mockingbird, and The Dispatch, among others. She is also a first-year mentor in Whitworth University's MFA in Creative Writing program, and she travels to speak at churches, conferences, and retreats. Over the past several years, she has been teaching rule-of-life workshops to hundreds of people across various life stages. The mother of five children, she is married to Ryan, and they live in Cincinatti, Ohio.