by Chris Maxwell | Jan 13, 2019 | Uncategorized
We continue our journey of emphasizing a different spiritual discipline each week. This week’s focus is on a prayer walk. Have you taken a prayer walk? Do you know what it is? Here is an article providing a description. Please take time to read. Also, take...
by Chris Maxwell | Jan 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
This week’s spiritual discipline is “surrender.” Today’s blog is the chapter “A Nap,” from Chris Maxwell’s book, Pause for Moms. Remember the occasion? The child was tired. It was past nap time and his day had already been very busy. Games and laughter and more games...
by Chris Maxwell | Jan 3, 2019 | Uncategorized
From my book, Pause: The Secret to a Better Life One Word at a Time The topic didn’t put an immediate smile on my face. I could almost hear my stomach growl while planning the presentation. I wanted to pause the study, forget the subject, and drive down the road to...
by Chris Maxwell | Dec 31, 2018 | Blog
Here is a short poem to read as we near 2019. For a collection of poems by Chris Maxwell, get a copy of his book, a slow and sudden God: 40 years of wonder. begin now is the time. begin. for the first time, begin. or, for the tenth time, begin again. with love and...
by Chris Maxwell | Dec 7, 2018 | Blog, Book Excerpts
from the books of Unwrapping His Presence and slow God: 40 years of wonder. the paper protected the present. it also presented the gift as something it wasn’t. colors, images. a cover, a mask. though lovely and friendly, the imagery lies about reality. paper,...
by Chris Maxwell | Dec 4, 2018 | Blog
l e s s c a n b e m o r e. in a world of many words and endless presentations we might serve better by shortening a song, a story, a sermon, a show. the true and deep meaning can surprise and mean even more by ending...
by Chris Maxwell | Nov 29, 2018 | Uncategorized
thanksgiving and christmas, new year’s eve and new year’s day, all arriving in this sudden segment of life, on days concluding school terms or days beginning fresh times as the calendars and clocks carried in our hands carry us, drag us, as we breathe, barely,...
by Chris Maxwell | Nov 25, 2018 | Blog
As we continue emphasizing a different spiritual discipline each week, this one seems a little late. Shouldn’t we have highlighted the act of “giving thanks” last week? The lateness is intentional. This is the week I personally need to remember the importance of...
by Chris Maxwell | Nov 19, 2018 | Blog
Everyone should know a little Latin. Here’s one for you: Lectio Divina. It means “divine reading,” and refers to a practice of reading the Bible that enables a person to enter into the text in such a way as to more clearly hear the voice of God, and be transformed by...
by Chris Maxwell | Nov 13, 2018 | Blog, Book Excerpts
This week’s spiritual discipline is “rest.” Today’s blog is from the book Pause: The Secret to a Better Life One Word at a Time. I frequently encourage students—and myself—to hit pause. But how? How do we rest for a moment, relax for a portion of time, and receive...
