God
graces us with leisure, and as we respond with gratitude and receive the gift,
we begin to live that balanced life that is our destiny as the people of a
loving creator.
Monday, June 30, 2014
Friday, June 27, 2014
Spiritual Discipline
The
practice of leisure is an essential spiritual discipline: God commands rest, the body refuses rest.
Thursday, June 26, 2014
Finding Balance
Leisure enables us to find
balance in our lives—balance among the needs of body, mind and spirit.
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
Growing Us
Leisure is meant to “grow
us.” It gives us a divine encounter with
the Spirit who sends us forth to live as persons of great love.
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Taking Time
Taking time for leisure
reminds me that God gives us a divine pattern of work and rest for our health and our pleasure.
Monday, June 23, 2014
Following the Gospel
Leisure
enables us to step back and try to understand what it means to follow the
Gospel in this situation.
Friday, June 20, 2014
Filling our Vessel
We can’t give anything
unless we have something inside us to give—leisure provides us time and opportunity to fill our empty vessel.
Thursday, June 19, 2014
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
"Busy-ness" in Life
No life is to be so busy
that there is no time to take stock of it—leisure gives a person time to take stock.
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Holiness in Life
Leisure reminds me that
all life is sacred, all life is holy, all life is to be held with reverent hands.
Monday, June 16, 2014
Friday, June 13, 2014
Sabbath Rest
Sabbath rest, leisure, is
a gift and a challenge to our lifestyles and a means of God’s saving grace in our lives.
Thursday, June 12, 2014
The World Around Us
Leisure puts us in touch
with the world around us by giving us the distance we need to see where we are.
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Holy Leisure
Benedict speaks of holy
leisure, the leisure that makes us more human by engaging our heart, broadening our vision, and deepening our insight.
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
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