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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!
- August, 2008
I am writing
this on a rainy Monday morning. I like rainy days,
because I’m less tempted to want to be outside. And I
love Mondays. They are by far my most productive day.
I think this is because I practice Sabbath on Sunday.
So I’ve had an entire 24 hours away from the computer,
away from the demands of my job. I’m refreshed and
ready to go on Mondays. It’s one of the hidden
benefits of keeping Sabbath.
Read the entire
August, 2008 issue!
- September, 2008
Have you ever longed to experience more
of God’s power in your life? Do you wish you
felt closer to him?
So often, we keep God at a distance—we know
a lot about him, and about the Bible,
but we don’t know him. He remains an
idea, a concept to believe in, rather than
an intimate friend and guide.
So we try to get closer, but we’re not
sure how. We step up our study about him, or
the amount of time we pray. Prayer and study
are great, but are we listening? And beyond
listening, are we obeying when he challenges
us to put our faith into practice? The
secret to experiencing God’s power and
presence in your life is to take a
God-directed risk when he asks you. To say
yes.
Read the entire
September, 2008
issue!
- October, 2008
There comes a time, when you’re deeply
aware of just how much grace God has poured
into your life, that you simply cannot hold
it inside you anymore. It occurs to you that
to hoard grace is an oxymoron, and that if
you do so, that makes you, well, a moron.
Read the
entire
October, 2008 issue!
- November, 2008
Outside my
office window is an absolutely amazing tree,
which has been changing color slowly over
the past two weeks. It began with the leaves
on the uppermost branches, which, seemingly
overnight, turned a brilliant crimson.
Slowly, the yellow, orange and red colors
have spread, top down, so that now only the
lowest and inner-most leaves are green.
Read the
entire
November, 2008 issue!
- December, 2008
I’ve had a busy day, I’ve got to start
dinner in an hour or so, but for now, I sit
at the computer to finish this newsletter.
I’ve got Michael Buble singing “Let it Snow”
on the CD player, and it is, indeed, snowing
outside my office window.
Read the
entire
December, 2008 issue!
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