Mindfulness

I have spent the last two work days alone in a room with some 500 pieces of choir uniform. I know that seems completely miserable and it possibly could have been, but I had my trusty ipod to get me through the days! I used the time to get caught up on Watermark sermons I had missed, as well as a few Matt Chandler sermons from the Village. If you get a chance to listen to the "Games People Play" sermons you really should take the time. They are powerful.

The other hours I just played my playlist of hymns and praise songs. It was completely brilliant! It has been a long time since I have been able to just sit and spend hours at a time just letting the Word be breathed over and through me! It reminded me of how much being consistently mindful of our days can change our perspective on everything. Here's a quote from Bonhoeffer:

"For Christians the beginning of the day should not be burdened and oppressed with besetting concerns for the day's work. At the threshold of the new day stands the Lord who made it. All the darkness and distraction of the dreams of night retreat before the clear light of Jesus Christ and his wakening Word. All unrest, all impurity, all care and anxiety flee before him. Therefore, at the beginning of the day let all distraction and empty talk be silenced and let the first thought and the first word belong to him to whom our whole life belongs. 'Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light' (Eph. 5:14)"


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