- Things to plan before each Sabbath:
- Meals
- Sunday obligations
- Creative Time
- Outings/Events?
- Rest from:
- Work & School
- Housework/Cleaning/Organizing
- Planning/Strategizing/Calendar
- Technology
- Shopping/Acquiring
- Cooking (as a chore)
- Exercise (as a chore)
- Focus on:
- Spiritual Refreshment & Worship
- Rest/Recreation
- Relationships/Connection
- Creativity/Spontaneity/Imagination
- Aids to rest:
- Music
- Nature
- Art
- Smells (candles, fragrances)
- Reading (devotional material, poems, prayers, stories, novels, short stories)
- Making fires
- Easy meals with friends
- Ceasing:
- Work
- Productivity and accomplishment
- Anxiety, worry, and tension
- Trying to be God
- Possessiveness
- Enculturation
- The humdrum and meaninglessness
- Resting:
- Spiritual
- Physical
- Emotional
- Intellectual
- Embracing:
- Intentionality
- The values of the Christian community
- Time instead of space
- Giving instead of requiring
- Our calling in life
- Wholeness (shalom)
- The world
- Feasting:
- On the eternal
- With music
- With beauty
- With food
- With affection
- And festival
One is sometimes (not often) glad not to be a great theologian; one might so easily mistake it for being a good Christian.
James R. Edwards, commenting on Mark 7 and Jesus’s controversy with the Pharisees and scribes over ritual defilement. Sounds familiar…
Trooper was not being especially hospitable to our friend Carlos last night
Lunch with the staff team at Leroy and Lewis
Currently reading: The Virtue of Nationalism by Yoram Hazony 📚
Currently reading: The Insider’s Guide to ADHD by Penny Williams 📚
My family knows the way to my heart
I’m teaching on the Ascension in the morning: an oft-neglected doctrine that’s become increasingly precious to me over the years.
Ascension (2000) by Laura James:
Ascension of Christ (c. 1350) from the Hohenfurth monastery:
