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David Burton
https://we-are-neighbors.blogspot.com/
“Two of the most important initiating principles for neighboring are to take notice and to invite others to join you. For a neighborhood to flourish it takes a joint effort of people who care about their neighbors and their neighborhood. Besides being essential, however, this joint effort is fun and brings joy to all who are involved. It manifest and takes us into real life, eternal life. It is how we make a neighborhood worth living in.”
― Next Door as It Is in Heaven: Living Out God's Kingdom in Your Neighborhood
― Next Door as It Is in Heaven: Living Out God's Kingdom in Your Neighborhood
“Our homes become our castles, our fence become our motes, our gates open only from the inside. Though we are touted as the richest country in the world, the United States is statistically the most medicated nation as well. The fact that those two notable pieces of data go hand-in-hand should cause us to ask some serious questions about the way we have come to do life.”
― Next Door as It Is in Heaven: Living Out God's Kingdom in Your Neighborhood
― Next Door as It Is in Heaven: Living Out God's Kingdom in Your Neighborhood
“Our aim must be higher than just to be a good neighbor ourselves. The goal is to create a neighborhood or group of neighbors were by the collective gifts, talents, resources, and caring hearts of many neighbors can join forces when needs arise.”
― Next Door as It Is in Heaven: Living Out God's Kingdom in Your Neighborhood
― Next Door as It Is in Heaven: Living Out God's Kingdom in Your Neighborhood
“Most people just dream of possibilities. Few people take action to bring possibility into tangibility. Our neighborhoods will become livable and sprinkled with the foretaste of heaven only when we decide to act on the little notions, daydreams, and crazy ideas running around in her head. The starting point lies in the word ownership. You must own the possibility in your neighborhood. Take our ship and act upon it.”
― Next Door as It Is in Heaven: Living Out God's Kingdom in Your Neighborhood
― Next Door as It Is in Heaven: Living Out God's Kingdom in Your Neighborhood
“Fear is certainly a significant hindrance to becoming more hospitable, the second and perhaps greater barrier has to do with time, or what we refer to as a lack of margin.
Margin is the space between our load and our limits between vitality and fatigue. It is the opposite of overload and therefore the remedy for that troublesome condition.
Without margin, we are incapable of relational spontaneity in our neighborhood. Without margin we are only interested in opportunities to serve our neighbors. Without margin we are unable to even think about planning time to spend with others. Margin creates buffers. It gives us room to breathe, freedom to act, and time to adapt. Only then will we be able to nourish our relationships only then will we be available and interruptible for the purposes of God.”
― Next Door as It Is in Heaven: Living Out God's Kingdom in Your Neighborhood
Margin is the space between our load and our limits between vitality and fatigue. It is the opposite of overload and therefore the remedy for that troublesome condition.
Without margin, we are incapable of relational spontaneity in our neighborhood. Without margin we are only interested in opportunities to serve our neighbors. Without margin we are unable to even think about planning time to spend with others. Margin creates buffers. It gives us room to breathe, freedom to act, and time to adapt. Only then will we be able to nourish our relationships only then will we be available and interruptible for the purposes of God.”
― Next Door as It Is in Heaven: Living Out God's Kingdom in Your Neighborhood
David’s 2025 Year in Books
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