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Real leisure, holy leisure, Sabbath leisure,
contemplative leisure, has more to do with the quality
of life and the depth of our vision than it does with
play and vacations.
The purpose of holy leisure is to bring this balance of
being, not a balance of time, back into lives gone
askew, and to give people time to live a thoughtful, a
contemplative as well as a productive life.
Holy
leisure, in other words, is the foundation of
contemplation. And contemplation is the ability to see
the world as God sees the world.
—Joan Chittester
from Being
Really Balanced
Sometimes I even keep the Sabbath
with a cup of steaming Assam tea on my front porch,
watching towhees vie for the highest perch in the
poplar tree while God watches me.
from
Leaving Church: A
Memoir of Faith
by Barbara
Brown
Taylor
Read
more of Jon Sweeney's review
This Enterprise Called Life
Ideally, activity is not task-driven but inner directed.
We are invited to "show up" at life and exert our
energy in being astonished at the wonder of God, in
becoming fully human and fully alive, and in being a
part of the imaginative creative development of this
enterprise called life.
In other words, we were not created simply to
complete tasks that could be checked off from a daily
to-do list. We were created to
become and to
participate.
Read
more
How Do I Spend Time with God?
Observe the Sabbath. Not literally but realize that one
of the Ten Commandments is to set aside one
seventh of our time to be with God. It is good to talk to
God, to tell Him of my needs, desires, hopes, and
needs. It is even better to listen to Him.
from What
a 1960s Guru Can Teach Us
About Real
Christianity
by Nick Lewis
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