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The Pace of Peace: Distraction, Attention, and the Gifts of an Examined Life
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Expected 8 Sep 26Receive the Gifts of an Examined Life with God
"So much to do, so little time," so the saying goes. For many today, our attention is stretched thin by overextended schedules, unmanageable calendars, and an impossible to-do list.
But what if the more we try to do everything, the less we are doing anything truly meaningful?
In The Pace of Peace, pastor Jay Y. Kim invites you to fight distraction and focus your attention by examining your life with God. Drawing on the Prayer of Examen developed by Ignatius of Loyola as a framework for all of life, Kim guides us through the movements of this ancient prayer practice—invitation, gratitude, reflection, confession, and looking forward—to point us toward the antidotes for the aches of our distracted age.
In The Pace of Peace, you are invited to move:
from the toil of absence to the gift of presence
from the striving for more to the gift of gratitude
from the wreckage of reactivity to the gift of reflection
from the shackles of pride and shame to the gift of confession
from the futility of self-will to the gift of God's will
A deep life is incongruent with a fast life. God invites you, instead, to live with your mind at ease, setting your life to the pace of peace. Free to be fully present. No longer straining to prove yourself. Settled and secure in the presence of God.
Encounter God in all of life and discover the peace and ease of being present, known, and fully loved with The Pace of Peace.
"So much to do, so little time," so the saying goes. For many today, our attention is stretched thin by overextended schedules, unmanageable calendars, and an impossible to-do list.
But what if the more we try to do everything, the less we are doing anything truly meaningful?
In The Pace of Peace, pastor Jay Y. Kim invites you to fight distraction and focus your attention by examining your life with God. Drawing on the Prayer of Examen developed by Ignatius of Loyola as a framework for all of life, Kim guides us through the movements of this ancient prayer practice—invitation, gratitude, reflection, confession, and looking forward—to point us toward the antidotes for the aches of our distracted age.
In The Pace of Peace, you are invited to move:
from the toil of absence to the gift of presence
from the striving for more to the gift of gratitude
from the wreckage of reactivity to the gift of reflection
from the shackles of pride and shame to the gift of confession
from the futility of self-will to the gift of God's will
A deep life is incongruent with a fast life. God invites you, instead, to live with your mind at ease, setting your life to the pace of peace. Free to be fully present. No longer straining to prove yourself. Settled and secure in the presence of God.
Encounter God in all of life and discover the peace and ease of being present, known, and fully loved with The Pace of Peace.
200 pages, Hardcover
Expected publication September 8, 2026
About the author
Jay Y. Kim
8 books17 followersJay Y. Kim serves as lead pastor at WestGate, a multicongregational church in Silicon Valley. He is the host of IVP's Digital Examen podcast and the author of several books, including Analog Christian, Analog Church, and Listen Listen Speak. Jay serves on the board of Practicing the Way and has spent two decades in local church ministry, all in the San Francisco Bay Area, serving as a teaching pastor and church planter over the years. Jay lives in Silicon Valley with his wife Jenny and their two children.
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