Today’s blog is written by Shawn Stutz. Shawn is a graduate of Generation 16 and currently a participant in Discipleship Faculty Training 4. He is instrumental in the launch of Journey Appalachia, coming fall of 2020. Shawn serves as the Executive Director of FOCUS Ministries, a prison and reentry nonprofit, in East Tennessee. He and […]
Quiet: Capturing Quiet Spaces for God
I?ve shared a quotation in this blog before from a book by Ann Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea. Below are a few others on the themes of solitude, silence, simplicity and open space for God. ?For it is only framed in space that beauty blooms. Only in space are events and objects and people […]
Practicing Simplicity in Choosing Our Words
?It is a wholesome act of humility to withhold the expression of our opinions, at least until others have spoken, or until we are asked to give our judgment. Often when we have accurate knowledge of a subject which is being discussed, it is a real act of mortification to refrain from speaking; and this […]