sabbath – 300 words a day

Nehemiah, feasts, Lent, and a new ebook.

Nehemiah has challenged me many ways. The biggest so far is the beginning of a series of publications that I’m talking about as “A New Routine.” I published the third ebook this weekend, this one as a Lent reader (Kindle) (Nook). Here’s how it relates to Nehemiah. In my Nehemiah email, I wrote about Nehemiah […]

by Jon Swanson

Aching souls don’t come just from being on our feet.

Many people I know are tired. Others are exhausted. Some are stressed. A few are overwhelmed. Several are at the end of their rope. A bunch are weary, a handful are wiped out. You may be one of those people. Part of the problem can be blamed on the International Olympic Committee who chose London […]

by Jon Swanson

Saturday reflection: Lent 2012

The second most visited post on this blog is one I wrote about Lent in 2011: 33 things to give up for Lent. All year long people have come to this post by searching for Lent. Which is interesting, since Lent is a period of forty days (plus 6 Sundays) between Ash Wednesday and Easter. […]

by Paul Merrill

Rest. Pray. Talk.

Three teenage young men are excitedly discussing music videos and life in the next room. I’m glad for the extreme enthusiasm flowing through the doorway. Sometimes I am a tired parent. That youthful enthusiasm rises to the surface fewer times than it did in my earlier years. So it’s nice to be surrounded by that! […]

by Jon Swanson

pages, dogs, sabbath and slack.

If you read this blog by Mailchimp email, you didn’t get anything from me on Thursday. You are getting two posts today. It wasn’t that I didn’t write anything for Thursday morning. It’s that, with more than 2000 posts written at various blogs, I wrote created a page instead of a post on Wednesday night. […]