1. Slow Down.
Life is a gift.
So slow.right.down.
Go for morning walks, breathe the fresh air in and sprint with the puppy.
Do whatever it takes to wake right up to the gift of life —
And break busyness so you can enter right into His fullness.
2. Pay Attention.
Listen —
to the birds chirping joyfully, the children chattering in wonder, the food processor churning food noisily, the faithful dryer tumbling humbly —
Pay attention to how even in all the noises, His voice is now resurrecting you.
3. Do More With Less.
Make extra wide margins, create extra white spaces…
These make room for the more.
Giving away what you don’t need, decluttering and caring for what you do need, cleans the soul, makes space in your soul for more.
4. Be Content with Small.
Be secure with being small, being unknown, being unheard.
Small doesn’t mean insignificant.
Small is the recognition that you are part of something greater.
It’s all the small moments that make the big moments.
All real living happen in the micro-seasons.
The life of ministry are frequently images of the single, the small, and the quiet, which have effects far in excess of their appearance: salt, leaven, seed. Our culture publicises the opposite emphasis: the big, the multitudinous, the noisy”
The Contemplative Pastor (Eugene Peterson)
5. Receive God’s Love.
Make time, even if it’s just for a moment, to read the Scripture and to let it read you.
Reading the Word is one small habit that produces the most significant change.
Life needs to be read backward to make a clear sense forward.
Read with the desire to know His heart. Read with the curiosity to know His love. He will speak and you will be wild amazed.
6. Celebrate the Children.
Slow — Children.At.Play.
Children are not obstacles to your free life. Children are your call to the God-life.
See them mucking around? Laugh along with them. See if you can tickle them and get more laughs.
Then tell the teenagers in your life how they matter and how their lives matter — and how you’d trade anything to see them achieve all their God-given dreams and possibilities…
7. Take Stock.
Not for what you haven’t got, but for all that you already have. For all that you already are.
It’s so easy to look around and fret over what you don’t have, what you’re not. But to give thanks for everything that you do own?, and have gone through? It’s humbling…
Soul satisfaction doesn’t come from toys, tools and trinkets.
Our soul is only famished for eternity.
8. Know this: You Have a Father.
It’s the orphans that go around this life miserable.
Daughters go living carefree, awe-filled.
No matter what’s happened.
No matter what hasn’t happened.
Life in Christ = joy in life = breakthrough
9. Make a Home, Not Manicure Perfection.
Let your home be where the weary can rest, rambunctious children be who they are.
Making a home is about being at home, where serenity and peace and truth prevails, not about making impression or manicuring perfection.
10. Be Still Enough For the Next Direction
One life — one track.
Discover your call, and own your life.
Embrace your limit, and align your goals.
Navigate your roles, and nurture your seed.
Then grow in your walk and create your flow.
You will multiply in His grace.
Just simply let every negativity and proclivity to doubt your self be washed in the wide open invitation to trust in Him who always provides, always protects, always prevails...