Margin Quotes

October 26, 2007

Lar,

I have yet another ‘must-read’ in my hands. (I am like the boy who cried ‘Wolf!’ in that regards huh?). It is called Margin and focuses on our great need for boundaries in life, boundaries that keep us from burn out. It’s a book sorely needed today. Anyhow, I hope to write more about this book next week sometime. For now, I thought I would share a quote or two. Here it goes…

“Do you think Jesus would have carried a pocket calendar? Would He have consulted it before making commitments? Would He have bypassed the leper because His calendar said He was late for the Nazareth spring banquet?

Do you think Jesus woudl have worn a wristwatch? What would have been His reaction if the temple service extedned past noon and alarms went off in the crowd? Would He have drive out the clock watchers along with the money changers?….

Do you think Jesus would have carried a beeper? Would Martha and Mary have page Him to come and raise Lazarus from the dead? Can you imagine Him being paged out of the Last Supper?

The clock and the Christ are not close friends. Imagine what God thinks of us now that we are so locked into schedules that we have locked ourselvesr out of the Sermon on the Mount–it is hardly possible to walk the second mile today without offending one’s pocket calendar. We jump at the alarm of a Seiko but sleep through the call of the Almighty.”

Naturally, Lar, there is much more to the book than that simple quote, but those paragraphs are good for reflection, I believe. We live in a day and age unlike any the world has evern known, a day and age that affords great opportunity for impact along with great opportunity for depression and burn out and debt and schedule overload. It takes great discernment and guidance to faithfully maneuver our way through these plentiful options. This book is surely helping me in that regard.

Needing grace to live with margin,
Joe

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