But there is something, in the Jewish Sabbath that is absent from most Christian Sundays:  a true cessation from the rhythms of work and world, a time wholly set apart, and, perhaps above all, a sense that the point of Shabbat, the orientation of Shabbat, is toward God. ~ Laurie […]

  Begin at the Beginning … We schedule and plan and fill each slot on our calendar with increasingly good things … and slowly, we become idolators. We worship at the altar of busy.  We lust for the feeling of checking things off our lists and we covet the praise […]

Yesterday I mentioned that while we are called to labor in the vineyards, we are equally commanded to rest in the still meadows.    Meditation is one of best tools I know to practice slowing.    Today,  I invite you to join me in meditating on Psalm 23.   To […]

Observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy, as the Lord your God has commanded you.  Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God … Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and that the Lord […]

Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.  Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God … For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in […]

We’re moving.  Back home to north Alabama.  In two weeks. Exactly.  Fourteen days to pack my house and clear up loose ends here.  Fourteen days to make sure everything is ready for our arrival there.  Fourteen days. To say that my life has suddenly gotten crazy and the idea of […]