To honor the theme of today’s post—slowing down—I’m going to write a brief blog.
In our driven, Western Christian world, we often don’t know how to slow down. We fail to rest. More than that, when we do slow down, guilt (false guilt) often overcomes us, shaming us for taking a brief break to rest, recuperate, and refresh.
Jesus Models Slowing Down from “People Activity” to “Withdraw” for Time Alone “Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed” (Mark 1:35). “But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed” (Luke 5:16). “Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the lake” (Mark 3:7). “Jesus went out to a mountain side to pray, and spent the night praying to God” (Luke 6:12). “When Jesus heard that John the Baptist had been beheaded, he withdrew by boat privately to a solitary place” (Matthew 14:13). “Because so many people were coming and going that they did not even have a chance to eat, Jesus said to his disciples, ‘Come with me by yourselves to a
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