Hebrew Day Planner

This is a challenging concept that came to Kim and I through the book "Making Room For Life" by Randy Frazee. Here it is: "There are essentially three major activities in each day that should be governed by night and day: productivity, relationships, and sleep. Because the work of the Hebrews was agrarian, productivity was accomplished during the hours of sunlight - 6am to 6pm... So the basic structure of a normal day for the Hebrews went like this: twelve hours available for productivity and work (6am-6pm); four hours available for relationships (6pm-10pm); and eight hours available for sleep (10pm - 6am)." On Friday night at 6pm they would begin their 7th day of rest as God designed. All governed by Day and Night. I think the question we all should ponder is this: Should we live by the same divine clock? and if so HOW? in a non-agricultural society! I believe we have got to slow down, get connected to others and our Lord or we will continue our slow death! Our crowded loneliness.

Grace = Fear???

Ever sang the song "Amazing Grace"? I have many times but this last week something struck me as I sang again. In one of the verses there are two line that stood out and I just can't let it go. They go something like this: "twas grace that taught me heart to fear, and grace my fears released." The second line makes perfect sense but grace teaching fear seems a bit odd and hard to comprehend. How does getting what we don't deserve cause us to fear? Is it that we are given so much and it is hard to handle? I wonder what the writer really meant when they coined those words. It is good to think about. The better I can understand Grace, God's Grace, the better I will be at living it out.