Good morning! I have started posting short, one minute long videos each morning via Instagram and our Good / True / & Beautiful Facebook Group.
When possible, I’ll be posting these here as well to come directly to your inbox.
Let’s see where this goes….
AG
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Who are you becoming? That was the question nagging pastor and author John Mark Comer. By outward metrics, everything appeared successful. But inwardly, things weren’t pretty. So he turned to a trusted mentor for guidance and heard these words: “Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life. Hurry is the great enemy of the spiritual life.” It wasn’t the response he expected, but it continues to be the answer he needs.
In this latest episode of Good / True / & Beautiful Podcast, Ashton interviews John Mark with a focus on his latest book, The Relentless Elimination of Hurry, that comes out on October 29th.
Click below for links to iTunes and Spotify.
reciprocity
generosity
hospitality
beauty
kindness
peace
surrender
joy
hope
love
discipline
creativity
unity
wonder
awe
Try one on today.
…and so easy to miss.
The steam rising from the coffee in your hands…
…the curious wonder in your child’s eye.
The inhale that’s never missed following up your exhale…
…the smile from a stranger that peels away your label of ‘strange’.
Most will settle today for a drama they think they’ve been cast for. They will drink and drink of gossip, blame until their blue in the face, become the victim at any cost and live into the belief that it’s all going to hell in a handbasket.
What if heaven is at our fingertips?
Think back twenty years ago.
Think about how you saw yourself, the world, your relationships, your dreams, and so forth.
Personally, almost every fact that I held so dearly twenty years ago now feels more like the dandelions children act like they own and then watch in awe as the wind takes them away.
All of the notes I’ve taken lead me to know two things: 1) There are fewer rules than we were taught. And 2) The languages that are used to explain things to us are far less useful than the actual languages that can speak and communicate to life, relationships, love, faith, and vocation.
If you’re going to ask anything of yourself today, ask for your heart to be expanded. Ask for the capacity to behold something far more mysterious and beautiful than you have ever imagined. “Taste and see” are words of experience, not of explanation.
Naturally, as the vase of your heart expands the garden of life blooms and blooms and blooms and blooms to fill the container.
Ashton.Gustafson 