“The nature of the most transcendent, joyous, meaningful experiences of life is to remain in them. What your mind wants to do is analyze, understand — or, more accurately — stand over the experience. This is why for many people, the word religion is a negative word, and it doesn’t have to be. Their only…
Sabbath
“In Egypt they worked every day. As a slave, your worth and value came from how many bricks you produced. The bottom line: How productive and efficient you are. And from the moment these people are liberated, what this God keeps insisting is: Take one day to rest, to play, to be recreated. Take one…
The Breaking & The Building
In Masterpiece of the Wilderness, Deanna wrote “I break down to nothing that which I desire to rebuild.” The other day, I was driving down CR6 in Elkhart and noticed that a building that had been sitting vacant for a few years had been torn down and a new bank was going to occupy the…
Downcast
“Why so downcast, oh my soul?” asks the psalmist. It’s one of those introspective questions that you ask yourself when you are trying to figure out what is going on in your spirit. When your mind won’t slow its’ busy cacophony of thoughts and sensory input, and your heart is heavy with hope deferred, it…