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Celebration
“We shall not be able to adore God on the highest occasions if we have learned no habit of doing so on the lowest…Joy is the serious business of heaven.” – C.S. Lewis
“Celebration is central to all the Spiritual Disciplines.” - Richard Foster
“Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice.” – Apostle [...]

Silence

“We are so afraid of silence that we chase ourselves from one event to the next in order to not have to spend a moment alone with ourselves, in order not to have to look at ourselves in the mirror.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“In a noise-polluted world, it is even difficult to hear ourselves think let [...]

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Solitude
“There are two ways of striving to fill one’s place in the world: one
is by seeking to prove one’s self usefull; the other, by striving to
render one’s self useless. The first way is the commoner and the more
attractive; the second is the rarer and the more noble.” - Henry Clay
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“It was an important day in [...]

Recently, my wife and I decided to take up running for exercise again.  It’s been a while so needless to say it’s going to take some work.  But, I really want to get in better shape, so I’m committed to the idea.
To prepare, we downloaded a running regimen put to music onto the ipod, dusted [...]

This past week in class, we viewed a portion of the video “Be Still.” This is a newly released video focusing on the importance of solitude, silence, and contemplative prayer in the midst of our busy world. It features notable Christians such as Richard Foster, Beth Moore, Dallas Willard, & Max Lucado among [...]

Slowing
Richard Foster writes that, “In contemporary society, our Adversary majors in three things: noise, hurry, and crowds. If he can keep us engaged in “muchness” and “manyness”, he will rest satisfied.”
Carl Jung says that “Hurry is not of the devil, hurry is the devil.”
Examples of Jesus “getting away” with God - Mk 1:35, 6:31, [...]