by Chris Maxwell | Aug 3, 2015 | Blog, Book Excerpts
-Today’s blog is from the book Pause: The Secret to a Better Life, One Word at a Time. Pick up your copy on Amazon or HERE. I place my order of a sandwich plate and a water. I pause and begin letting the authors provide their own words of wonder. Annie Dillard...
by Chris Maxwell | Jul 30, 2015 | Blog
(originally published August, 2009) Soon school begins again. Students enter the experience of learning. Classes and books and tests and assignments. Expectations, explanations, information, application. Exciting lessons, boring lessons, confusing lessons. The...
by Chris Maxwell | Jul 27, 2015 | Blog, Book Excerpts
-Today’s blog is from the book Pause: The Secret to a Better Life, One Word at a Time. Pick up your copy on Amazon or HERE. Let us listen. Let us be silent. And listen. But how? Noticing, as we considered in the previous chapter, is a start. Noticing our...
by Chris Maxwell | Jul 24, 2015 | Blog, Book Excerpts
-Today’s blog is from the book Pause: The Secret to a Better Life, One Word at a Time. Pick up your copy on Amazon or HERE. Realizing time refuses to slow down—the pauses depend on us to choose to rest a moment and notice life. Talking on the phone to a young...
by Chris Maxwell | Jul 20, 2015 | Blog, Book Excerpts
-Today’s blog is from the book Pause: The Secret to a Better Life, One Word at a Time. Pick up your copy on Amazon or HERE. My brain damage makes it tough to remember. I do remember when I could remember so much better. Names and numbers. Songs and passages of...
by Chris Maxwell | Jul 16, 2015 | Blog, Book Excerpts
-Today’s blog is from the book Pause: The Secret to a Better Life, One Word at a Time. Pick up your copy on Amazon or HERE. Staying prayerful means more than going through the motions. Communication with God includes many types of episodes. A private place and...
