“If we are going to live appropriately in the creation we must keep the Sabbath. We must stop running around long enough to see what he has done and is doing. We must shut up long enough to hear what he has said and is saying. All our ancestors agree that without silence and […]
Still Saturday: In This Moment
“The present moment is all that is real. The past is gone. The future is not yet. We remember the past and anticipate the future, but we always do so in the present. “Reality is always now. And the single most important aspect of reality is that God is present in it every moment. To […]
Still Saturday: Key Moments
See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness, touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace. Listening to Your […]
Still Saturday: Glimpses of Glory
One of the great gifts of God is the wonder and diversity of the world that is around us. From the book in your hands to the sky above you, the physical world invites amazement. In Romans 1 Paul says that we are without excuse precisely because of the glory that shines forth from everything […]
Still Saturday: Magnificently Obsessed
Seasons are inherently unbalanced . . . The watchword for seasons isn’t balance. It’s rhythm. We crave balance but need rhythm. For everything there is a season . . . But here’s what I keep trying to say: It’s impossible to pursue anything without forsaking other things. It’s impossible to live in the grip […]
Still Saturday: Shut Up
“Sandra, shut up and vacation!” Orbitz sent me an email with those words in the subject line. “Seriously, get going!” they continued in the body. “Go somewhere!” Seriously, how does one ignore that? We are going to get going for a few days… “Each of us needs to withdraw from the […]
Still Saturday: It Is Time Now
Swimming, One Day in August It is time now, I said, for the deepening and quieting of the spirit among the flux of happenings. Something had pestered me so much I thought my heart would break. I mean, the mechanical part. I went down in the afternoon to the sea which held […]
Still Saturday – Stay Your Soul
“Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is.” ~Amy Carmichael (as quoted by […]
Still Saturday: Imitating God
“Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children” (Eph. 5:1, NIV). . . . To be an imitator of God, requires that we come to terms with the value of quietness, slowing down, coming apart from the noise and speed of today’s pace, and broadening our lives with a view of the eternal […]
Still Saturday: Being
“We mostly spend [life] conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have and to Do. Craving, clutching and fussing, on the material, political, social, emotional, intellectual, even on the religious plane, we are kept in perpetual unrest: forgetting that none of these verbs have any ultimate significance, except so far as they are transcended by […]
