Enjoy this article from Seth Godin. ********************** Merry You can't be merry by yourself. Sure, you can be content, happy, possibly even delirious. But merriment requires a group, and that group is almost always a group you can see and touch, one that's sharing the same molecules of air, face to face. The digital revolution continues to get deeper, wider and more important. But it has made no progress at all at increasing merriment. That's up to us. Source: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2011/12/merry.html
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Do you have enough white space in your life? If you're like most people, the paper of life gets filled up with stuff. Things to do, appointments, and outright clutter. We're rushing from this place to that one. Even the margins of life have scribbles in them. The symptoms of too little white space include: Little-to-no down time. Uncomfortableness with silence. A feeling of always being distracted. Feeling rushed. Feeling guilty if you're not doing something. How do you recapture lost white space?
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Today is December 26, also known as "The Day After." Just as John 3:17 has lived in the shadow of its more famous predecessor, December 26 is the day that is privileged to follow Christmas. It's the day when we clean up, throw away, and rest. Some families have a tradition of opening a gift on Christmas Eve; none that I know of save one for The Day After. This morning, the morning of The Day After, I'm sitting at the table with my second pot of coffee and thinking about the past few weeks. Here are a few of my reflections: Christmas in America has become more than a season. It now begins before Halloween. The fourth quarter should be renamed the Christmas quarter. Many people are trying to do Christmas differently. They are trying to simplify and are more intentional about how they spend their money. People are…
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Years ago, I read a small book by Rubel Shelly and Randy Harris entitled "The Second Incarnation of Christ." It opened my eyes to new ways of understanding the nature of the church. First, a little refresher. The incarnation of Christ simply means "God became flesh" or "God in the flesh." In other words, when Jesus arrived in Bethlehem, that was no ordinary baby in the manger - it was God himself. Jesus was the living, breathing manifestation of God. When we talk about the church being the second incarnation of Christ, we mean that the church is the body of Christ. We are the physical manifestation of Jesus to the world. We become his hands and feet. Unlike the first incarnation, however, the second incarnation is far from perfect. I wonder how our attitude towards "the church" would change if we saw it as the second incarnation of…
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“Satan tempts us to bring out the worst in us, but God tests us to help bring out the best.” - Warren Wiersbe
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