Here and there, I want to share an excerpt from current or recent reading without a lot of comment. Sometimes it will be a biblical word. Other times it will be an excerpt from a good book.
There are so many goodies I come across, but sometimes I don’t post them because I have the time to reflect and journal my own response. I’ll leave that to you. Those posts will be titled “A Good Word…” And here’s the first:
“Daily schedules and disciplines are necessary in every family. We are designed by God to live rhythmic lives. In the beginning there was light and there was darkness, there was evening and there was morning, there was work and there was rest, there was a time alone and time together. ‘God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning—the sixth day…By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from his work’ (Genesis 1:31; 2:2). The pattern of God’s creation is one of creative order through a daily and weekly rhythm.” (Robinson, David. The Family Cloister. New York: The Crossroad Publishing Co., 2000, p. 118.)
What rhythms does your family practice? Which ones are life-giving? Which aren’t?
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That was very good! Thank you.