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Show me the way in 2024

Pam Weinreis • Jan 05, 2024

When the year's end feels a bit impossible.

Are you weary from long days? A pace that leaves you weary.

 As we continue to face unknowns and heartaches, I am desperately made aware of my need for the Lord.

Show me the way from your Word.

Show me the way from your Word.

The solution to an over busy life is not more time. It is to slow down and simplify our lives around what really matters.

How do we live deliberately, slowing down, simplifying, right in the middle of the chaos of the noisy, fast-paced, digital world we call home?


The answer is easy: but the process is difficult and daily: follow Jesus.

The answer is easy: but the process is difficult and daily: follow Jesus.

To many this answer may feel a bit mundane,

 Read your Bible.

 Be with Jesus.

 Become like Jesus.,

 Model all of your life after Jesus.

Matthew 11:28-30

"Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."


Eugene Peterson's paraphrase of these same verses in The Message:

"Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out by religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you'll recover your life. I'll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me-watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won't lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and you'll learn to live freely and lightly."


People all over the world-outside the church and in-are looking for an escape, a way out from under the weight of life this side of Eden.

 But there is no escaping. The best the world can offer is a temporary distraction.

Jesus doesn't offer us an escape. He offers us much more, equipment.

 He offers us a way to bear the weight of this world.

 He offers us a way to bear the weight of this world.

 At his side.

 At his pace.

Unhurried, present in the moment, full of love and joy and peace.

(Parts of this is taken from, "The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry")

Until next time, Pam

Familiar

By Pam Weinreis • 14 Apr, 2024
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By Pam Weinreis • 19 Mar, 2024
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frosted trees in the winter

Loneliness

By Pam Weinreis • 27 Feb, 2024
Nearly one out of three older Americans are lonely, according to a recent study. The study revealed that the biggest shift in loneliness rose among the younger generations. Loneliness is distress caused by a lack of satisfactory relationships, not just being alone.

Life That Is Truly Life

By Pam Weinreis • 10 Feb, 2024
Life That is Truly Life Is our society consumer based? Did you know that only a century ago 90 percent of Americans were farmers? Life was hard, but simpler too. They mostly lived off the land and traded with neighbors whatever else they needed. Money was rarely used. And most of the things they owned fell into the category of needs, not wants. Today only 2 percent of Americans work agriculture. The last century has radically reshaped the American economy. People moved to cities for jobs, where goods were produced. After the wars, politicians and businessmen worked hard to remake the American economy. It was said their goal was to get the simple farmers children to spend their time and money buying up the latest thing. To grow a generation of consumers.

Un-Hurry Your Life

By Pam Weinreis • 27 Jan, 2024
Have you ever considered "boredom" as good for you? Is boredom good for your kids? Do you remember a time when instant access to the internet, YouTube, tic-toc, and/or snapchat wasn't an immediate go to? How about this, waiting at the railroad tracks, waiting in traffic, sitting in a movie theater before the show with nothing for your mind to do but wander, listen, visit or just be quiet?

Anyone Feeling This

By Pam Weinreis • 07 Dec, 2023
I'm in a Hurry To Get Things Done
Pam Weinreis and all of her daughters and granddaughters

Thanksgiving

By Pam Weinreis • 24 Nov, 2023
It is the month set aside for thanks. I am struggling, and I still get turned around. Is my dwelling on the past or fretting over the future keeping me from the present? Is my anxiousness masked by anger? Do I discount this moment?

Distracted From Distractions

By Pam Weinreis • 13 Nov, 2023
Are we a people, "distracted from distractions?"
cross on a hill during sunrise

New Birth

By Pam Weinreis • 27 May, 2023
The warmth of the sunshine does something for our souls. It seems to lift the spirit. Signs of spring are slowly showing up. The Little Missouri River’s running out of its banks. Baby calves scatter the hillsides. Green grass begs to grow. Just days before the Holy Week, our eighth grandchild is born.
dark clouds in the morning, sun behind them

Peaceful Living

By Pam Weinreis • 28 Feb, 2023
Most of the world’s discussion about peace today centers around the absence of wars between nations. We are past the anniversary of the Ukraine war; this world does not seem peaceful. But the Bible focuses on a different kind of peace. A personal peace that is not dependent on what is happening around us.
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