Savor the Feast
Restful Christmastide, Day 7
Happy New Year’s Eve, Restful friends! It takes almost more attention and discipline to feast than fast. Maybe this is because longing is more familiar than the contentment and shalom we savor when celebrating well. I'm grateful for the countless "good-enough" celebrations in my lifetime that whetted my appetite for the great festival of Home, which we look forward to enjoying forever.
Keep celebrating, and invite a friend to join us!
“True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare. The absence of this digestive talent is what makes so cold and incredible the tales of so many people who say they have been ‘through’ things; when it is evident that they have come out on the other side quite unchanged. A man might have gone ‘through’ plum pudding as a bullet might go through a plum pudding; it depends on the size of the pudding—and the man. But the awf…
