I finally got around to having an intentional day of sabbath yesterday.
What did I do?
Hung out with my daughter (Ikea breakfast and a community center for kids)
Indulged in a large lunch with my parents
Took an afternoon nap
Read Scripture and some light reading on rest
Fiddled with my new ipod touch
The iPod Touch is my first apple product. I’ve been mostly been using a Palm for the past 5+ years as a pda and music player.
I’ve only been messing around with it the past day, but here’s the latest on it, and you apple nerds can tell me if there’s anything life altering I’m missing.
The mail client is fetching from my gmail account
I’m using something called nuevasync to sync my google calendar and gmail contacts
Evernote app installed to sync to my laptop/desktop notes
Other apps currently installed - wordpress, facebook, youversion bible reader, obama 08, idoodle, flashlight, and a whole bunch of free games.
I’ve got 3 different “to-do’ apps, 3 different im applications (palringo, IM+, and Fring), any one have suggestions on what’s worked best?
Some related questions:
Is there a way for me putting mp3 talks or sermons into the ipod without mixing it up with songs? ie, some way of inserting it into the podast section even though they weren’t podcast downloaded?
Is there something that can make the player auto-shutoff? ie. yesterday I took my nap with mark driscoll yelling at me… and he kept yelling long after I dozed off.
Is there a way of syncing the photos with picasaweb albums or flickr?
Are there workarounds with playing flash video? I tried iTransmogrify to no avail…
1. It’s completely counter-cultural and is a way of creating a kingdom culture in the west
2. It reminds us of the mission God is one, even when we’re not.
Some random thoughts on rest
I am no practitioner of rest. I’ve always loved the bon jovi song that goes “I’ll live when I’m alive, sleep when I’m dead” (yes, I like bon jovi). I use to read books on lucid dreaming, so that I could continue getting stuff done while I was unconscious.
My wife once told me that maybe my lack of sleep was due to my lack of trust in God
How is it that we worship the prince of peace and yet most of us are filled with worry, anxiety, and conflict in our souls?
When we’re busy helping other people with their junk, we don’t have to worry about our own
Jesus didn’t busy himself healing everyone, yet he still saved the world.
Jesus famously declares in Matthew 11:28-30 for us to come to him and he will give us rest. But he doesn’t explicitly say that he’ll take any of the load off of us…
St. Augustine said that our hearts won’t ever find rest, until we find our rest in god. I think he might have got it from Psalm 62:1
Many of us find ourselves busier than we ought to be because we’re doing things Christ never called us to.
Sometimes we can find rest by learning to receive and allowing others to help
Sometimes the help God’s trying to provide us isn’t exactly what we’re looking for (like sabbath), but we still need to learn to receive
Everyone talks about rest these days from psychologists to corporate wellness programs, but just about all of them are from a utilitarian approach. Get some rest so that you can…
Sabbath has nothing to do with productivity.
Sabbath reminds me that I’m not a machine nor an invincible superhero.
Sabbath is a command because I wouldn’t do it if it was just a suggestion (Exodus 20:8)
One way of looking at the creation story of God resting, is that it obviously wasn’t because he was tired, but because he was so satisfied with his work that he could step back from it. How might the end of each of your days be like this?
Genesis also describes the rhythms as “then there was evening and then morning”. The Israelites practiced Sabbath from friday dusk to saturday. In an age without electrical lighting, sabbath began when they went to sleep.
In this sense, Sabbath is when we get out of the way so that God can work. When we wake, we wake up into a world that we did not create and we join God in what he is already doing.
Our practice of sabbath (whatever expression it might take on) radically speaks of our view of God.
Sabbath challenges us to actually trust that even though we’re not working, God actually is in our world. And he might actually even be capable of the miraculous.
In Sabbath we stop what we’re doing so we can finally observe and enjoy what God has already done
Tipping Point author Malcolm Gladwell gets inside the food industry’s pursuit of the perfect spaghetti sauce — and makes a larger argument about the nature of choice and happiness.
Lots of great connections this past week, I don’t know how I’ve managed with my daughter tagging along full time the last while!
Excellent video skype chat with Jay Lee, church planter of Catalyst GTA of Every Nation ministry. If you’re in the UT area, check’em out.
Had a great call from Marty Schmidt the coolest person I know in all of Iowa. If you’re every in Iowa (flyover land I believe they call it, so I don’t know why you’d be there), check out his church plant - the bridge.
My fellow leader at Mosaic just opened up Kneadings Bread & Cafe this week. If for some reason, you’re in newmarket you need to drop in (that means you JD).
Attended the starfish network gathering of ontario house churches. If you’re interested you need to connect with Rad Zdero of housechurch.ca
Just got a note from friend Alex McManus to join the imn immersion (it’s been on my things to do for a few years now) but sadly won’t be able to participate this round. If you’re able to make it to florida in february you need to be a part of fight4humanity.com
Attended Vision360 for Toronto Canada yesterday. If you’re interested in city-engaging church planting in the GTA you need to get connected with these guys asap. Let me know too, because I’m still looking for a team of people myself as well. It was hilarious hearing leaders talk about advancing the kingdom and changing the world while Stellar scurried around with her stuffed monkey.
that’s all for now, tune in for more name dropping next week…
October 5, 2008 
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