On this Memorial Day weekend, I wish to remind all of us that freedoms in the United States of America were bought and paid for with the blood and lives of fellow Americans. These heroes made the ultimate sacrifice of love, after all “Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his […]
The Sabbath can be an interesting thing: how a body can be at rest but a mind anything but restful. Can it legitimately be called a Sabbath if your mind is working overtime? Don’t ask me. I am a thinker and a planner. My mind weighs alternatives and builds cases. I even do it in […]
How is it possible that something so simple as waiting and resting can become so complicated? Is it just me, or a Type-A American phenomenon? Or maybe it’s human nature to complicate something as easy as rest? Jesus sets things simple and straight. He’s Lord of the Sabbath Mark 2: 23 One Sabbath Jesus was […]
All this thinking about drifting and stillness and considering it with the requirement to have a Sabbath made me process my thoughts via analogy. I’m in a sailboat. My sail is up but the wind is so light, it’s almost imperceptible. “Becalmed” is the term sailors use for this. Don’t you love that? Becalmed. Be […]
The pastor at the church I attend on holiday stated emphatically that no one ever drifts toward God, but we can find ourselves having drifted far away from Him. Doesn’t the letter to the Hebrews warn us time and again against drifting away? (Hebrews 2:1, Hebrews 3:7-19, Hebrews 5:2-6:6, Hebrews 10:19-31.) We must pay more […]
Back to the subject of drifting versus stillness: I don’t want to drift, that’s for sure! I’m not sure that drifting is my bigger problem. My problem is that I fear drifting so much that I am addicted to busyness (which in turn becomes my operating definition of success: how much I accomplish for the […]
What is the difference between stillness and drifting? I was thinking about that when the pastor at the church I visit when I’m on holiday was preaching about making one’s life “drift-proof.” He spoke of reliable anchors of the family of God, the indwelling Holy Spirit, and the powerful written Word of God. Mentally, I […]
