A trio of ideas came my way this week—all
good ones for beginning a new year. So, I want to take a break from my thoughts
from the Letter to the Hebrews and pass these helps on to you.
First, my good friend Steve Brown, in the
midst of a long vigil at his dying mother’s bedside, shared with me that is he
has been stopping three times a day to deliberately focus on God. Then I read a
tweet from another old friend encouraging us to all pick one word that would
give us direction for the new year. He added a recommendation to read his
daughter’s new blog post. Clicking on the link, I found encouragement to stop
other things for five minutes, several times a day, for spiritual
contemplation.
I realized how without any effort on my part,
I had been graciously shown how to keep changing and renewing my mind. So,
after considering several options for a word for the year, I selected: “wait,”
as in “Be still before Yahweh and wait patiently for him” (Psalm 37:7). Then, I
began stopping at least three times a day, taking five minutes each time to do
nothing but focus on God, the life of love he calls us to live, or on my word
“wait.”
I can’t yet tell you what a month of this is
like, but I am already giving thanks for a good plan that is connecting me with
perspective and power, It will take some commitment and discipline, but I am
eager. If you can gain from this, all the better.
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