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Psychologists tell us anxiety is often the canary in the coal mine, our souls’ way of telling us something is deeply wrong and we need to fix it, fast.
“Attention is the beginning of devotion.”
what you give your attention to is the person you become.
“Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.”
“We find God’s will for our lives in our limitations.”
Be with Jesus. Become like Jesus. Do what he would do if he were you.
If you want to experience the life of Jesus, you have to adopt the lifestyle of Jesus.
mindfulness is simply silence and solitude for a secular society. It’s the same thing, just missing the best part—Jesus.
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
“At this point in my life, I’m just trying to not miss the goodness of each day, and bring my best self to it.”
These four practices—silence and solitude, Sabbath, simplicity, and slowing—have helped me tremendously to move toward abiding as my baseline.
“Every now is an eternity if it is full of God.”3
“What can anyone give you greater than now?”5
Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life.10
But Paul says we are to aim our ambition—the pent-up energy and drive that we all have at some level—at something else entirely: a quiet life. That’s the goal, the end, the vision of success: a quiet life.
