Learning about the liturgical year, processing as I blog.
I’ve been thinking about obedience today. This past week I read Becoming Elisabeth Elliott. Her biographer, Ellen Vaughn, writes, “To her, the only measure of any human action came down to one thing: obedience.” When reporters asked Elisabeth if her husband’s ministry to the Waodani tribe was successful, worth dying for, Elisabeth pointed to the…
Thus, discipline is the creation of boundaries that keep time and space open for God. Solitude requires discipline, worship requires discipline, caring for others requires discipline. They all ask us to set apart a time and a place where God’s gracious presence can be acknowledged and responded to. Henri Nouwen, Bread for the Journey: A…
“We want to avoid suffering, death, sin, ashes. But we live in a world crushed and broken and torn, a world God Himself visited to redeem. We receive his poured-out life, and being allowed the high privilege of suffering with Him, may then pour ourselves out for others.” Elisabeth Elliot Over the next few weeks…