Month: October 2022
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Leisure Time NOT A Life of Leisure
There’s a major difference between leisure time and a life of leisure. Leisure time is vital for setting up and keeping rhythms and routines of rest and life balance. However, seeking to live a life of leisure is not at all what we should be pursuing. There are those who think time off or down…
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Remember the Sabbath
Remember the Sabbath. Sounds pretty simple. And yet it is the longest of the ten commandments – 98 words based on the NKJV. God must have anticipated that we’d mess it up, and gave it more ink than any of the others. There is no ambiguity. The instruction is clear, we are to observe a…
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Content or Content?
Are you content, or is your life about accumulating content? If you hope to live a restful and balanced life you must come to grips with the issue of contentment. The story is told that a reporter once asked John D. Rockefeller how much money is enough to which it is said he replied, “Just…
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No is a complete sentence
Nearly every one of the 30 plus books I have read the past four years on rest and life balance has had one thing in common to them all. The word NO. Here are just a few examples: Michael Hyatt in his book Free to Focus says “Every yes inherently contains a no, acknowledge and…
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