How Do You Spend Your Day?
Last month data from the 2008 American Time Use Survey was creatively put together in an interactive graph…
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Sabbath Rest in a 24/7 World Paying Attention to Our Longing Hearts
This retreat guide offers some ideas to help us step back, catch our breath, and to pay attention to the longing in our hearts. Some of these can be done in the midst of our busy lives. And some need time dedicated to getting away. Both contexts are part of a healthy rhythm: meeting God in the midst of life and withdrawing to be alone with our God.
Urban Contemplative Retreat Guide
Most spiritual retreats are focused on withdrawing from your environment and from noise and distraction. In contrast, this is a retreat focused on allowing the surroundings and context of the city to draw you into an awareness of God’s presence.
My Best 3 Conversations This Week
I love summer at Fuller. Summer at Fuller means way fewer meetings and more time for my research and writing. This past four days I’ve had even fewer meetings than a normal summer week. And thanks to the blank space…
A Calendar is a Moral Document
As someone who cares about kids and a parent, I can’t stop thinking about this blog from Jim Wallis from Sojourners entitled “Your Calendar is a Moral Document”.
I hope it stretches and inspires you as it has me.
Smelling the Flowers – Literally
So this morning I was walking my three year-old, Jessica, to her preschool and she asked me to stop and smell the flowers with her. Literally.
I wasn’t running late, but I was running right-on-time to get to Fuller. And…
Unplugged and Inspired
Yesterday Mark Oestreicher from Youth Specialties posted a blog saying that among other things, he was ending his blog, closing his Facebook account, and cutting back on travel. The reason? He wanted to give…
Hearing the Gentle Whisper
Discernment is a word we hear more and more these days. Guidance was what we used to call it, and some still do. Whether we call it discernment or guidance, however, many of the authors agree that where we go…
Sabbath
This weekend I spoke at the Mother/Son Retreat at Forest Home. One of the many reasons I wanted to speak there was because I was able to bring our eight year-old son. Nathan and I had a…
Busy Kids
In the Powell family, we’re on a hiatus from kid sports. Soccer and basketball are done and we’re taking a break. Every night we’ve been home this week, we’ve been outside, riding bikes. Usually our neighbors and their kids join…