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An Unhurried Life Events in Southern California
Next month, I’ll be speaking twice on the theme of my book. The video below shares more details. Or Click Through to YouTube Video LINKS: “All Shall Be Well” Conference, Saturday, February 1, 2014...
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The Future of This Blog
2013 was quite a year. I was able to visit our Journey generations in the Dominican Republic (January) and Nigeria (September). Gem and I traveled to Singapore for our nephew Matthew’s wedding to Joyce...
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The Gift of a Nap
This week, I’ve been up in the mountains of Southern California leading The Journey for a group of our alumni, as well as for our 22nd and 23rd group to go through this process. We call them...
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Ministry: Keep It Simple
Head waters of the Jordan River at Caesarea Philippi (March 2013) Like some of you who read this blog, my vocation, my way of providing for our family is by serving in ministry. As such, I found Jesus...
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Ministry: Service as Overflow
Head waters of the Jordan River at Caesarea Philippi (March 2013) [Remember: I will be moving the majority of my blogging activity over to The Leadership Institute blog beginning next week, February 4....
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Thomas Kelly on Unhurry
In my morning spiritual reading recently, I came across this in Thomas Kelly’s A Testament of Devotion: “In some we regret a well-intentioned but feverish overbusyness, not completely the depths of...
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Creativity as the Fruit of Wholeness of Soul
I was talking with a trusted counselor recently about my personal journey towards emotional healing. One comment he made was that creativity is a sign of soul integration. When we less and less at odds...
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Leadership Energy: Holy and Unholy
Here’s another word of wisdom from a good spiritual director from the last century: Baron Friedrich von Hügel. I’d be very interested in your response. He talks about the difference between excitement...
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At Rest in the Presence
A beautiful bloom from my writing retreat in Jarabocoa, Dominican Republic. The other morning, as I was beginning my day in some silent prayer, I had a strong thought come to me, a reminder by the...
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Psalm 23: Well-Shepherded
Sometimes, I find it helpful to take a simple and familiar line of scripture and let it guide me, word-by-word and phrase-by-phrase, into prayer. Here was a recent journal entry in which the first line...
View ArticleLegalism: How to Love God’s Law Without It
The first line of An Unhurried Life says, “I’m a recovering speed addict—and I don’t mean the drug.” Well, I’m also recovering from legalism. There was a time when I loved having clear biblical rules...
View ArticlePodcast Interview: Spark My Muse
Enjoy this podcast interview with Lisa DeLay of Spark My Muse. In it, she interviews Alan on the theme of An Unhurried Life. The post Podcast Interview: Spark My Muse appeared first on Unhurried Living.
View ArticleGood Work Grows in the Soil of Good Rest
What a year! I say that with both excitement and with awe. In March, Gem and I launched a new non-profit. It hadn’t been in our long-term plans, but there we were. There have been places of hard, good...
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An Unhurried Practice: Reading Scripture Slowly
I want to tell you about an unhurried practice I’ve been engaging for a few months now. For my last birthday, I was given an especially beautiful present. One of the disciplines that has been an...
View ArticleAudio – An Unhurried Life Interview
Alan was recently interviewed by Paul Johnson, of the God Zone Podcast. In their conversation they discussed: Jesus’ rhythms of engaging and drawing away How rest enhances your productivity Listening...
View ArticleProductivity is Patient and Organic
When it comes to Jesus talking about the productivity of our lives, I love that he uses organic imagery. He is the vine. We are the branches. If we remain connected to him in interactive friendship, we...
View ArticleAn Unhurried Leader: Giving Birth to a Book
At the beginning of 2014, shortly after receiving news that An Unhurried Life had received a Christianity Today Book Award of Merit in Spirituality, I started the process of drafting a sequel....
View ArticleRestful Work, Fruitful Rest
Last week, Gem and I were given the gift of a work week at a friend’s cabin in Southeastern Utah. It sits at about 8,000’ in a part of the state between Zion National Park and Bryce Canyon National...
View ArticleHurry: Finding Help in Busy Moments
Earlier this week, Gem and I had the treat of leading a workshop called “Cultivating Spiritual Health: The Unhurried Way of Jesus.” A group of about 600 leaders had gathered from one large...
View ArticleHope in a Darker Shade
In An Unhurried Life, I wrote a chapter titled “Suffering: Unexpected Unhurrying.” It’s a hard topic to discuss, let alone live. We’d probably rather that unhurrying happened for us in an island oasis...
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