Family Rest, Sabbath Starts Study

A week of rest with family begins my study and renewal summer.  A great week with Penny, my son Jeremiah and his family.

I've noticed a sense of relaxation that doesn't  always happen in a week of typical vacation.  There is a freedom of schedule and task in not coming back to preaching the day after travel and leading a fully calendared week.

This week I've begun reading, again, Brian McLaren's "We Make the Road By Walking" as a devotional tool.  My previous look at this resource touched me and drew me to consider it as a tool to order preaching. I'll be sharing more of this great theological look at faith and scripture in a 21st century relevance mode.

A relaxing week also yielded some final travel plans, personal insights, and exercise.  What's God been doing in your week?

Re- Flect, Joice, New

Events collide begging for more.  Ferguson, MO.,  Advent, Thanksgiving, life with family and life with church.  It all crosses paths.

Today the Advent meditation above and the Martin Luther King, Jr. quote, to the left, drew me to the hope of  Emmanuel, God-with-us.  I am thankful that there is more than my mind and strength to bring peace & sense in a world that is too often distressed & senseless.

May you find hope and reason for thanks in the days ahead.  I pray that in some way I may be a reminder that God loves you and that I might be a part of the work that strives toward shalom, peace.

Blessings & 10,000 Joys in the Prince of Peace.

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