Status Updates From Sacred Strides: The Journey...

“I think it’s appropriate to feel personally connected to your work. It is another thing entirely to identify AS the work. “

“The practice of rest is the primary way I’m regularly learning to wrestle loose of the grip lesser stories have on me, so I can see myself the way God sees me and maybe pass along some of that same vision to people I care about.”

“ Sabbath resistance isn’t as much a blanket critique of organizational and institutional growth as it is a call to evaluate what we mean by ‘growth’.”.

“May I never sacrifice
My health and wholeness
On the alter of productivity;
Let my work be rooted
In my full humanity and in grace.”

“ It matters to God that you are healthy and whole (and even happy) while doing the work he has called you to. Your legacy is not more important to God than the richness of your life while you build that legacy.”

“ In in the practice of rest, I’ve learned that the storms and their seriousness shouldn’t set the tone for my life. The love of God for the world should do that. If I live my life at the pace of the agencies around me, I will almost certainly drown-and it won’t be the storms around me that does it; it’ll be the unrest and chaos within me.“