Join The Underlines // The Best Of What I Read
A batch of the best highlights from what Joshua's read, .
Or perhaps we take seriously the act of going to bed and asking, How am I going to end this thing? Shall we lie awake in bed, letting all the replay tapes run? Shall we browse our phones for some recent celebrity scandal to bounce meaninglessly around our brain? Or shall we walk intentionally toward the rest we know we need? No one can sleep while believing that she needs to keep the world spinning. But real rest comes when we thank God that we don’t need to, because he does. Thus we kneel by the bed and place the period of God’s mercy and care for us at the end of the day.
The Common Rule
Justin Whitmel Earley
But here’s the thing: God loves taking the last kids picked and making them the center of his story.
The Pursuing God
Joshua Ryan Butler
Notice how similar the definition of liturgy is to the definition of habit. They’re both something repeated over and over, which forms you; the only difference is that a liturgy admits that it’s an act of worship. Calling habits liturgies may seem odd, but we need language to emphasize the non-neutrality of our day-to-day routines.
The Common Rule
Justin Whitmel Earley
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