I’ve been tuned in to this message Steve just posted for about 15 years or so when I first met him and Gwen at a conference giving a talk about Sabbath Keeping. For those of you who may be new to Steve’s posts and all that he ruminates on, welcome to fresh air! It’s actually not that fresh, but ancient wisdom. It feels fresh every time I hear it though. Wisdom does that. It’s a guide, a lamp where we feel unclear and unsure about how to navigate our lives. These suggestions Steve has made here about “coping” are diamonds of such wisdom. I have watched him and Gwen live this, even desperately at times. I have followed their lead through the dark woods of the wilderness and found these pointers to be absolutely filled with light and life to sustain me and my family. We have coped, survived, and even thrive when living by them. Today I feel drawn again to ceasing, turning off the noise and going outside. Yesterday my wife and I marveled in our backyard at the beauty and wonder of a mother Robin feeding her chicks in a nest. So too we need fed. I am not feeding on the news today. I am looking up with my mouth wide open.
I couldn’t have any kind of quiet, focused time with God this week and I just realized after 10 days of traveling to South Dakota and then Annapolis from CO, I’m just waiting for my soul to catch up with my body. THANK YOU!! Again and always for paving a sane way. ❤️
“…live in a slower and more intentional pace and embrace a natural rhythm that our bodies and souls were shaped to live by in life. It’s rhythm. It is not balance. Rhythm is the primal movement of understanding sunrise and sunset; Circadian rhythms of the body; the time needed to sleep; the time to work and the time to rest from our work.” That was just one gem in this post, but kept floating to the top. Rhythm is natural, organic. Balance to me is something that “seems” to be more of a logical, man controlled ability to not “loose it”! Even writing those words seem absurd! Especially when we say as we age in particular,” so we don’t loose our balance”. So all that to say, to let go, to have once more that childlike trust that all manner of things shall be well when our hand is in His.
I’ve been tuned in to this message Steve just posted for about 15 years or so when I first met him and Gwen at a conference giving a talk about Sabbath Keeping. For those of you who may be new to Steve’s posts and all that he ruminates on, welcome to fresh air! It’s actually not that fresh, but ancient wisdom. It feels fresh every time I hear it though. Wisdom does that. It’s a guide, a lamp where we feel unclear and unsure about how to navigate our lives. These suggestions Steve has made here about “coping” are diamonds of such wisdom. I have watched him and Gwen live this, even desperately at times. I have followed their lead through the dark woods of the wilderness and found these pointers to be absolutely filled with light and life to sustain me and my family. We have coped, survived, and even thrive when living by them. Today I feel drawn again to ceasing, turning off the noise and going outside. Yesterday my wife and I marveled in our backyard at the beauty and wonder of a mother Robin feeding her chicks in a nest. So too we need fed. I am not feeding on the news today. I am looking up with my mouth wide open.
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I’m going to go lie down.
I couldn’t have any kind of quiet, focused time with God this week and I just realized after 10 days of traveling to South Dakota and then Annapolis from CO, I’m just waiting for my soul to catch up with my body. THANK YOU!! Again and always for paving a sane way. ❤️
“…live in a slower and more intentional pace and embrace a natural rhythm that our bodies and souls were shaped to live by in life. It’s rhythm. It is not balance. Rhythm is the primal movement of understanding sunrise and sunset; Circadian rhythms of the body; the time needed to sleep; the time to work and the time to rest from our work.” That was just one gem in this post, but kept floating to the top. Rhythm is natural, organic. Balance to me is something that “seems” to be more of a logical, man controlled ability to not “loose it”! Even writing those words seem absurd! Especially when we say as we age in particular,” so we don’t loose our balance”. So all that to say, to let go, to have once more that childlike trust that all manner of things shall be well when our hand is in His.
Praise God we are not of this world! This ain't my home.