A snapshot of part of one shelf of one bookcase in our house. There is no end to the making of many books, and much study wearies the body.Ecclesiastes 12:12 A classmate back in my grad school days had this above verse from Ecclesiastes on his office door. A subtle reminder, I guess, of the …
Continue reading Spiritual Practices for an Accelerating Age #2: Open a Book
It’s easy to default to playing with your phone, checking out YouTube videos, podcasts, whenever you have a spare minute or free time. It can become a habit. More, for some it can be addictive. Our screens can suck away our time like a Shop-Vac sucks up dust and dirt. But for the last few …
I got a call yesterday from our local library letting me know that a book I ordered had arrived. To be honest, I couldn’t remember what book I had ordered! Something one of my sons had requested, perhaps? Much to my joy, I discovered it was the one volume edition of Isaac Asimov’s original Foundation …
On recent Saturday mornings, my son Eli and I have been watching The Spectacular Spider-Man cartoon on Netflix. Most recently we watched a bunch of episodes of the Marvel show WandaVision on Disney+. After that I would sometimes watch an episode or two of Law & Order. But now I won’t be doing any of …
“He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the day.”John Bunyan “It comes the very moment you wake up each morning. All your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job each morning consists simply in shoving them all back; …
Continue reading Reading to Slow Yourself Down Part 2: Reading as a Way of Listening
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