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What is the rhythm of our life/the speed in which we live in? This week's podcast will help you look at your own rhythm and how the urgency in today's world should not dictate how you manage and care for your own soul.
What is the rhythm of our life/the speed in which we live in? This week’s podcast will help you look at your own rhythm and how the urgency in today’s world should not dictate how you manage and care for your own soul. Steve will take you through the scriptures mentioned below and will then lead us in a reflection on Matthew 11:28-30.
Mathew 11:28 Reflection from The Message by Eugene Peterson
Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you’ll recover your life. I’ll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me—watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won’t lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and you’ll learn to live freely and lightly.
Moment to Breathe - Keeping Quiet by Pablo Neruda
Now we will count to twelve
and we will all keep still.
For once on the face of the earth,
let’s not speak in any language;
let’s stop for one second,
and not move our arms so much.
It would be an exotic moment
without rush, without engines;
we would all be together
in a sudden strangeness.
Fisherman in the cold sea
would not harm whales
and the man gathering salt
would look at his hurt hands.
Those who prepare green wars,
wars with gas, wars with fire,
victories with no survivors,
would put on clean clothes
and walk about with their brothers
in the shade, doing nothing.
What I want should not be confused
with total inactivity.
Life is what it is about;
I want no truck with death.
If we were not so single-minded
about keeping our lives moving,
and for once could do nothing,
perhaps a huge silence
might interrupt this sadness
of never understanding ourselves
and of threatening ourselves with death.
Perhaps the earth can teach us
as when everything seems dead
and later proves to be alive.
Now I’ll count up to twelve
and you keep quiet and I will go.
Pablo Neruda was an early 20th century poet and political figure from Chile. He won the Noble Prize for literature in 1971, he has been called one of the most influential poets in the 20th century and is beloved in South America.
taken from Extravagaria : A Bilingual Edition
by Pablo Neruda (Author), Alastair Reid (Translator)
Noonday Press; Bilingual edition (January 2001)
God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening,
and there was morning – the first day. Genesis 1:5
And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day
from the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years.”
Genesis 1:14
As long as the earth endures, seed-time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter,
day and night will never cease. Genesis 8:22
He made the moon to mark the season, and the sun knows when to go down. You bring
darkness, it becomes night...then the people go out to their work, to their labor until
evening. Psalm 104:19-20, 23
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