Reclaiming Quiet

Cultivating a Life of Holy Attention

By: Sarah Clarkson

Narrated by: Sarah Clarkson

In a noisy world, the cultivation of quiet may feel like a luxury you do not have. But it is also vital to your spiritual life. When we spend our days distracted by social media, news, entertainment, and jam-packed schedules, we make it nearly impossible to experience the kind of thought life that allows us to grow into the people God created us to be—to become more and more like Jesus. We're too busy and distracted to notice the people and situations God has placed in our path for our spiritual benefit.

Reclaiming Quiet is your invitation to discover the profound joy of resisting our cultural obsession with distraction and instead cultivating a life of holy attention. With practical strategies to add stillness, listening, and rest into your daily rhythms, this book shows you how to

- care for your inner life

- listen to the voice of God in the everyday

- stay grounded in the now while looking with hope and expectation to the future

You're more than a viewer, a user, or a consumer. You are a child of God, a recipient of his grace, a disciple who is seeking to follow him more closely. It's time to reclaim all that. It's time to seek out some holy quiet.

©2024 Sarah Clarkson (P)2024 eChristian

Reclaiming Quiet

Breathtaking! I know I will listen to this book many times, getting to know its messages and insights as a friend and companion. Much of it affirmed my own walk as a young adult, then wife, then mother, now grandmother and how the Holy Spirit accompanied me along the way. It also called me to trusting more deeply. This book will be unique to each reader, and a blessing to all.
Thank you Sarah Clarkson for persevering in your writing of this book and the gift it is to each of its readers.

Kindest and gentlest reminder to turn back toward quiet

I so enjoyed this book! It offered such encouragement and practical application for finding quiet in times and places where it seems there is none.

The last Two chapters

Throughout this book, I found myself wishing for a more poetic touch. The complex vocabulary made it challenging for me to fully immerse myself in the text. However, one line stood out to me profoundly: "In the quiet, it doesn't have to be joy and full of insight—it can be grief." I wish I could quote it perfectly because it resonated so deeply.

Although I struggle with grammar and expression, I have to say that the final two chapters were life-changing. They brought everything together in a way that profoundly impacted me.

Good, beautiful, and true.

Sarah wrestles with the difficulty of quiet in a noisy word with prose that is both lovely and deeply moving. She does not offer platitudes, but gently redirects our gaze to the One who is ever present and speaks with a gentle whisper to His children. I will be reading this book over and over.

Great book and great narration by the author!!

Sarah’s continued honesty and assessment of her life and struggles as well as the victories. . Very inspiring.

A profoundly moving read for everyone!

This book was phenomenal from start to finish. I loved being able to hear Sarah read this herself. It moved me in so many ways. Evoked deep discussion with my husband and several others. It gave me an entirely new outlook on quiet, creating a life with more quiet in it, and how to work out my own convictions and longing in this world. I’ve recommended this book to countless others. All I can say is everyone should read this. It’s truly a work of art ❤️

A balm

Listening to Sarah Clarkson was a delight. To hear her read her own insights and discoveries was soothing and helpful. It was a calming and helpful experience. So much so, that I was shocked when the book drew to an end. Already? I wish it could go on and on. No guilt from her words, freedom.
Gratefully,
A Mom of 8

Adding notes to the music of life

Reclaiming Quiet is an insightful work of wisdom, born of pain and hardship gradually shaped into beauty. I found myself smiling often, nodding my head in agreement, and wanting to mark a certain phrasing of an idea or truth that touched me thoroughly. Such a good reminder that beauty is often born of suffering, not from its absence. The very presence of God abides in those hard times in listening and growth. Sarah brings an important reminder that the beauty and healing that comes from moments of quiet, not in grand plans of effort, but in receiving it as a gift. This was my first listen to this author - with many more to follow, I’m sure!

Thoughtful and challenging

Sarah’s gentle voices guides the reader to examine the place for quiet in a far-from-quiet world.