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"Now comes the hard part of
winter, when the holidays are over. Here in the
Midwest, it’s been
cold and snowy for a month or two, but the season is just
getting
revved up. We’ve had ice storms, snow storms. We’re supposed to get
a
January thaw this weekend, although I know winter will return with
a vengeance.
It’s never really over around here until well into
April."
Read the entire
January 2008 issue!
- February, 2008
"There is a part
of me that tends to live in the future—to look forward to things
that are going to somehow improve. While I am very good at making
plans, I miss out on whatever it is I’m in the middle of."
Read the entire
February 2008 issue!
"Of the spiritual practices I teach
on, few inspire a stronger response than
Sabbath-keeping. Most
people love it, or hate it. Well, maybe not hate it. Perhaps
it’s more that they are convinced that it would be impossible in
their season of life
(no matter what that season is). Others were
injured by Sabbath legalism in the
past and completely reject it. "
Read the entire
March 2008 issue!
"What does it mean to love your
neighbor? When someone asked Jesus about this,
he responded with a
story, about radical kindness—about a Samaritan who went
out of his
way to care for someone who probably disliked him. Jesus gave the
example of a person who loved across ethnic and religious lines, who
helped
someone who despised him. Jesus said loving your neighbor
sometimes means
offering real help, even if it's inconvenient. It
means loving those who are different
from you, even those who don’t
like you."
Read the entire
April 2008 issue!
"Just as you receive this newsletter from me, I also
receive a few newsletters from
other writers and ministries. This week, I received my friend Karen Mains’
newsletter, Soulish Food. (You can read it
below as our guest column.) As usual,
Karen’s musings were thought-provoking. One
paragraph especially struck me. She
talked
about “the writing life.” Like a lost pair
of gloves, Karen felt this life was
something she once had, but had lost
somewhere along the way. She’s done
ministry
with her husband David for decades (they did
Chapel of the Air radio
ministry, and now
run MainStay ministries). The demands of
ministry edged out
that “writing life” she
wanted."
Read the entire May 2008
issue!
"Summer can be
a time when things actually do settle down—or not. We
get
sucked into the trap of
thinking summer is endless and put off what we really
want to do. We see wide
open days and rush to fill them, rather than relish
them."
Read the entire
June 2008 issue!
"One of my favorite spiritual practices is one you don’t
hear much about: the
practice of play. But it seems an
appropriate topic to consider during summer. Play
is an important part of what I call
Sabbath Simplicity—a sanely paced, God-focused
lifestyle. To live in Sabbath
Simplicity means we have slowly crafted a life-giving
way of life—and it may look different
in your life than it does in mine."
Read the entire
July 2008 issue!
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