O, make your Word a swift Word, passing from the ear to the heart, from the heart to the lip and conversation; that, as the rain returns not empty, so neither may your Word, but accomplish that for which it is given. Amen
- George Herbert
Fun parent observation today: Rob Lowe voices Simba in the Disney kids' show - the Lion Guard. Here I am trying to do work in my office, and all I hear is Sam Seaborn helping President Bartlett craft his foreign relations with the those outside of the pride lands... #WestWing
We acknowledge that there is far more wonder in this life of worship than we yet have eyes to see or stomachs to digest. We receive what has been set before us today as a gift.”
- Tish Harrison Warren, Liturgy of the Ordinary (2/2)
“How should we respond when we find the Word perplexing or dry or boring or unappealing?
We keep eating. We receive nourishment. We keep listening and learning and taking our daily bread. We wait on God to give us what we need to sustain us one more day. (1/2)
“The new life into which we are baptized is lived out in days, hours, and minutes. God is forming us into a new people. And the place of that formation is in the small moments of today.”
- Tish Harrison Warren, Liturgy of the Ordinary
Ecclesiastes 7:10
“Say not, ‘Why were the former days better than these?’
For it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
Nostalgia is a double-edged sword. Don’t discount your blessings today reminiscing about “the good old days”. See each day as the gift it is.
#LakeviewWisdom
Kindred wisdom from different sources this week:
“For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven…”
- Ecclesiastes 3:1
“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
- Gandalf, the Fellowship of the Ring
All find what they truly seek, and since then, O Kings and Ladies, I have been wandering to find him & my happiness is so great that it even weakens me like a wound. And this is the marvel of marvels, that he called me Beloved, me who am but as a dog
- C.S. Lewis, the Last Battle
Pumped to be in Sunday School this morning to hear @aaronawine teach the final lesson of @lakeviewuthmin Fuel Weekend - On Technology and the Christian Life. Useful wisdom for these teens & adults on how to balance & take back control in our tech-saturated world. @LakeviewAuburn
‘This,’ said Reepicheep, ‘is where I go on alone.’
“They did not even try to stop him, for everything now felt as if it had been fated or had happened before…Then he took off his sword (‘I shall need it no more,’ he said) and flung it far away across the lilied sea…
“Music, breathing of statues. Perhaps:
silence of paintings. You language where all language
ends. You time.
standing vertically on the motion of mortal hearts.”
- Rainer Maria Rilke
trans. by Stephen Mitchell
“Your lack of preparation does not constitute an emergency for me…*sigh* but let’s see how we can help you through this...”
- Every Band Director on the last week of classes.
#BecauseWeCare