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Take Off Your Shoes
My sabbatical mentor passed this along… (From: Seasons of Your Heart by Macrina Wiederkehr) My bare feet walk the earth reverently for everything keeps crying, Take off your shoes The ground you stand on is holy The ground of your being is holy. When the wind sings through the pines like the breath of God…
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Rest. Listen. Enjoy.
Before my sabbatical, I bought Alan Fadling’s book: An Unhurried Life: Following Jesus’ Rhythms of Work and Rest and received an introductory coaching word… Finished his book last week! I am indeed resting, listening, and enjoying my time with Jesus! 🙂 It was a good read with several excellent reminders. It got richer with each…
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Plans…? Hold them loosely… Instead, bask in His love!
Today, I had to release many things in my quiet time with the Lord. I did this in the morning and again in the evening when I followed the prayer of Examen. I realize that I’ve been grieving on my sabbatical with plans thwarted. (I’ve also realized I’ve been grieving the past year over hopes…
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Personal Daily Practices by Dallas Willard – (YouTube) Interview
Dallas Willard is another modern day theologian who practiced Spiritual Disciplines regularly. He wrote, “The Spirit of the Disciplines” which I have purchased to read while on Sabbatical. Here’s a personal interview with him on his personal practices… “Dallas’ Personal Daily Practices?” by Dallas Willard – YouTube. Some points… Start the day with meditation on…
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Podcast: Sabbath by Pete Scazzero
A sample of what I’m re-learning on sabbatical… Search iTunes for ‘Pete Scazzero sabbath’
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Come Away From Rush and Hurry
As you know, I’m on sabbatical and I awhile ago finished enjoying Marva Dawn’s book, “Keeping the Sabbath Wholly.” This past weekend, I went away on a retreat. The first song we sang was… Come Away From Rush and Hurry Marva J. Dawn (To the tune of “Come Thou Fount”) Come away from rush and…
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His Presence
I just completed this compilation of Brother Lawrence and Frank Laubach’s journals and letters. What a powerful yet simple read. A classic indeed! A perfect read for my sabbatical… I have and will be sharing quotes from it in my posts. An excerpt from my first phase sabbatical report… “Now, I’ve started to re-read Frank…
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God Makes a Palace
“The most important discovery of my whole life is that one can take a little rough cabin and transform it into a palace just by flooding it with God.” – Frank Laubach
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Sabbath Celebration Using our Senses
Marva J Dawn in her book Keeping the Sabbath Wholly: Ceasing, Resting, Embracing, Feasting on p.199 touched on celebrating God on Sundays using all our senses… I love this! Early on Palm Sunday morning, with our boys while sitting in the morning sun on our deck, we asked each other what we could sense around…
Following and Trusting : Encountering God Out of the Box 