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A Frame for Ordinary Life – Eugene Peterson

By Charles | February 27, 2015 - 2:05 am |February 26, 2015 Quotation

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If you keep the Sabbath, you start to see creation not as somewhere to get away from your ordinary life, but a place to frame an attentiveness to your life.

From: Eugene H. Peterson

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Watch – Eugene Peterson

By Charles | February 6, 2015 - 3:00 pm |February 6, 2015 Quotation

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If you don’t take a Sabbath, something is wrong. You’re doing too much, you’re being too much in charge. You’ve got to quit, one day a week, and just watch what God is doing when you’re not doing anything.

From: Eugene H. Peterson

Speak/Listen – Samuel

By Charles | January 28, 2015 - 8:39 am |January 28, 2015 Quotation

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Speak. I’m your servant, ready to listen.

1 Samuel 3.10 (The Message)

(For a short reflection on this verse, visit Disciples’ Walk