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Whoever keeps time will determine the moral shape—and the decay rate—of production and reproduction.
Andrew Root • The Congregation in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #3): Keeping Sacred Time against the Speed of Modern Life
David Farrier • Wild Clocks – David Farrier
If we wait, it’s no longer today’s reflection. In a year, we may be guided to create a piece that looks nothing like it. There is a timeliness to the work. The passing of seasons could dissipate the value the work holds for us.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
The metronome version of time disappears for a while, and stretched, flexible time plays out around you. The hours repeat themselves in spirals and circles, in slow ebbs and flows. It’s a version of time that is available to you when you spend time with the baby, so that the baby becomes an emissary from another world,
Pamela Douglas • The Discontented Little Baby Book
“This is the time to be slow,
Lie low to the wall
Until the bitter weather passes.
Try, as best you can, not to let
The wire brush of doubt
Scrape from your heart
All sense of yourself
And your hesitant light.
If you remain generous,
Time will come good;
And you will find your feet
Again on fresh pastures of promise,
Where the air will be kind
And blushed with
Psalms 92:3, however, evening becomes the time for faith, for trust that the morning will bring God’s loving-kindness.
Nehemia Polen • Stop, Look, Listen: Celebrating Shabbos through a Spiritual Lens
Remember in the first chapter, we talked about the “treasure chest” of items that we all keep for ourselves, full of old awards and ticket stubs and journals? Ettl’s treasure chest is full of hardcover books, historic coins, and aged autographs—the relics of his march through U.S. history. There’s something appealing about a moment of pride that co
... See moreDan Heath • The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact
Deadlines are chronos, the world’s time; Divinity knows only kairos, Eternity. The deadline will be met if I remember to ask for grace.