CANAAN'S REST

Devotions based on Mark Buchanan’s book, Spiritual Rhythm The season of summer is one spiritually of enjoying God and others without reserve. It is a time of warmth and rest and pleasure. We are not hurried, worried and it abounds in fruit.  We feel deeply alive and full of peace. God’ seems most visible and…

Devotions from Mark Buchanan’s book, Spiritual Rhythm I have always liked summer season best and spiritually it is a season of  warmth, fruit, light, rest, wonder, joy. It is a time of sheer delight in God and what He’s made. It is so opposite of winter and is a time when God and others are…

Devotions based on Mark Buchanan’s book, Spiritual Rhythm The first activity of Spring is to wake up, to get loose, and to leap forth. Let the winter’s losses and sorrows break down into something useful and life-giving. Once awakened Spring demands of us to plow, plant and clean. We need to do our part and…

Devotions from Mark Buchanan’s book, Spiritual Rhythm After we have been through the bleak Winter season, the cold lifts and God changes everything, bringing us into Spring.  Where death has reigned, life triumphs and we live in hope.  It could happen suddenly and we may feel joyful and experience emotional renewal, physical renewal, and moral…

Devotions based on Mark Buchanan’s book, Spiritual Rhythm The winter season of our souls calls us to some good work – praying, pruning, waiting; and it also gives us good gifts.  It gives us the opportunity in reimaging our lives. That doesn’t mean we indulge in some fantasy of escape but rather we see our…

Devotions based on Mark Buchanan’s book, Spiritual rhythm When we are in the winter season of our soul there is work in winter that only winter knows.  Like prayer. Prayer is the ongoing work of winter. But we may pray not because we know and see what God is up to, or because we feel…

Devotions from Mark Buchanan’s book, Spiritual Rhythm The season of winter is bleak, cold, dark and fruitless. It is a time of inactivity, more night than day and never seems to end. We would like to run from it, disavow it, or deny it.  Sometimes it feels like it is our personal failure, something we…

Devotions based on Mark Buchanan’s book, Spiritual Rhythm This book is about the 4 distinct seasons of our soul within us. There are seasonal rhythms like flourishing and fruitful, stark and dismal, cool and windy, etc. The seasons have nothing to do with age and seldom the person.  Our responsibility is to know the season…

Devotions based on an article by Stacey Benson As we follow God’s call for our lives I’m sure we’ve all had our share of darts thrown at us by friends, family, and church people.  It may be hurtful words, judgments, criticisms, or untrue accusations against our character. We can respond by building  protective walls or…