Eugene H. Peterson was a pastor, scholar, author, and poet. For many years he was James M. Houston Professor of Spiritual Theology at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia. He also served as founding pastor of Christ Our King Presbyterian Church in Bel Air, Maryland. He had written over thirty books, including Gold Medallion Book Award winner The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language a contemporary translation of the Bible. After retiring from full-time teaching, Eugene and his wife Jan lived in the Big Sky Country of rural Montana. He died in October 2018.
My two favorite chapters were on joy and obedience - I particularly how they both draw from joy and obedience having a past, a present, and a future. Rooted in fact, taking that fact and applying hope to the future, and then taking action today.
What a race to run, daily, mundanely, but in full confidence of what is to come!