Reprinted from the Salt & Light Australia Daily Devotional. Isaiah 29:13–14: The Lord says:“These people come near to me with their mouth and honour me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.Their worship of me is based on merely human rules they have been taught.Therefore once more I will astound these people with wonder upon wonder;the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the…
Reprinted from the Salt & Light Australia Daily Devotional. Seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. Matthew 6:33-34 It has been a really nutsy time for me lately: a season of busyness. I…
Reprinted from the De Pree Center. It is almost 60 years since Betty Friedan first started encouraging women to make choices about their lives. Her 1963 book, The Feminine Mystique is widely celebrated as sparking the second wave of American feminism. In that book she described a problem faced by many women at the time: The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many…
Reprinted from the Salt & Light Australia Daily Devotional. Psalm 1391 You have searched me, Lord, and you know me.2 You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.3 You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.4 Before a word is on my tongue you, Lord, know it completely.5 You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your…
Reprinted from the Salt & Light Australia Daily Devotional. Matthew 11:28-3028 ‘Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.’ Miwa Sado was 31,…
Reprinted from the Salt & Light Australia Daily Devotional. Proverbs 31:10, 14, 16–17, 19–20, 30–31: 10 A [valiant wise worker] who can find? She is worth far more than rubies.14 She is like the merchant ships, bringing her food from afar.16 She considers a field and buys it; out of her earnings she plants a vineyard.17 She sets about her work vigorously; her arms are strong for her tasks.19 In her…
Reprinted from the Salt & Light Australia Daily Devotional. In 2010, Eugene Peterson declared, “I am prepared to contend that the primary location for spiritual formation is the workplace” (Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places, p. 127). Let’s think about that for a moment. Surely not: it’s in church on Sunday, or at a spiritual retreat? However, Peterson was not just a…
Reprinted from the Salt & Light Australia Daily Devotional. When I was a Mum with small children, I continued to do work projects. However, I struggled when people asked me “What do you do?” I tended to respond: “I’m just a Mum.” Two things to say about my response: “I’m just a…” That’s a value statement. It represents the fact that I valued…
Reprinted from the Salt & Light Australia Daily Devotional. A couple of weeks ago, I talked about Jesus’ work as a carpenter and builder, which is not often remarked upon even though it took up 60% of his life. It is not remarked on because there is not much written about it in the Gospel accounts. However, what IS written about,…
Reprinted from the Salt & Light Australia Daily Devotional. Lately I have been doing some work in the Gospel of Luke. I’ve been looking at Jesus’ work, and how it relates to our working. For most of my life the only connection I heard between Jesus and work was that he was a builder, and then, at age 30, he started…
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