I'm enjoying my new part-time job, and working hard to bring some stable routines into my life, beginning with more regular sleep habits. Unless you have ever been a late-night-addicted night-owl like I have been, you won't know how incredible it is if I tell you that I am overjoyed that I'm starting to feel like I am really sleepy and tired by 11:00p.m. (or even earlier sometimes). We're working through some of the backlogged piles of paper and junk around here too, so it's a good time.
Looking forward to my church's annual Women's Retreat coming up this weekend. I'm hoping that it won't rain the whole time, so that I can spend some time just sitting in silence in the redwoods (it's up in the Santa Cruz mountains). Thanks, Anj (and Henri Nouwen), for this lovely reminder about Holding Space - I think that I will have opportunity to practice all these this weekend.
Thus, [Spiritual] discipline is the creation of boundaries that keep time and space open for God. Solitude requires discipline, worship requires discipline, caring for others requires discipline. They all ask us to set apart a time and a place where God's gracious presence can be acknowledged and responded to.
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