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We are not on vacation. It's the last day of spring and my husband's off from work. The sky is pale blue...
A mother, in middle age, sat with her teenage son, bouncing along, shoulder to shoulder. I wondered if I would grow into...
We need refreshment. We need our souls restored. We need times of quiet.
I began my brief career as a nurse, with no vision, apart from survival—my own and that of my patients. Fear drove...
How many times have we gazed into our electronic calendars, crammed full of colored squares, and thought: "I feel like a slave...
Right now, as I write this, I'm not connected to the Internet. In fact, I've got my...
The speed and amount of data coming at us on our computers, laptops, and cellphones, and soon through our glasses and watches, is startling.
The Sabbath is a day for saving life, not just in the particular sense of rescuing someone from a life-threatening situation, but...
In a world so filled with busyness, where electronic communication invades every moment, where people are running ragged and neglecting their most...
Over thirty-seven million hits. That’s how popular the topic “work-life balance” is. Search it in quotes, with or without the dash, and...
The topic of work-life balance is a hot one today. Millions of people around the world are trying to do what they...
While planning our family’s first real-deal, official vacation, I came across the following statistic: ...
Becca worked from home, and her friends envied her. “No commute!” they’d say. And while no commute was great, Becca knew the flip side: no climbing in the car to get away from...
Emptying and filling, she said. I have been thinking about these words all morning. Emptying and filling, emptying and filling, emptying and filling. ...
I will thank you, Lord, among all the people. I will sing your praises among the nations. Psalms 108:3 As you know...
What’s in a dream? Consider Elias Howe—the sewing machine pioneer. In his original model, his needle had an eye in the middle. And it didn’t work. One night, Howe dreamed he was under...
Busyness is our badge of honor. We boast about how tired and overspent we are, as though it were something to be...
Jesus, the Lord of the Sabbath, offers to each of us the refreshment of frequent, recurring rest.
And He said to them, "Come away by yourselves to a lonely place and rest for a while."
God calls people to both work and rest. Explore the biblical call to rest and break through some of the barriers we...
