December 24th streams in the desert said he went out to the field one evening to meditate Genesis 24:63 we would be better Christians if we spent more time alone and we would actually accomplish tomorrow if we attempted less.. and spent more time in isolation and quiet waiting upon God the world has become too much a part of us and we are expected with the idea that we are not accomplishing anything unless youre always busy lee running back and forth we no longer believe in the importance of a retreat where we sit silently in the shade as a people of God we have become entirely too practical we believe in having all our irons in the fire and that all the time we spend away from the Advil or fire is wasted time yet our time is never more profitable spent dead when we set aside time for quiet meditation talking with God and looking up to heaven we can never have too many of these open spaces in life our set aside when our soul is completely open and accessible to any heavily daughter influence that God may be pleased to sender way someone once said meditation is a Sunday of the mind and these hectic days we often give our mind a Sunday a time in which it will do no work but instead will simply be still look heavenward and spread yourself before the Lord like get a chance please allowing yourself to be soaked with the moisture of the dew of heaven we should have intervals a time when we do nothing think nothing and plan nothing but simply lie on the green left of nature and rest a while Mark 631 time spent in this way is not lost time a fisherman does not say he was losing time when he is mending his net nor does a gardener feel he has wasted his time by taking a few minutes to sharpen the blades on his mower and people living in cities today would do well to follow the example of Isaac and as often as possible visit the field of the quarters countryside away from the hustle and bustle of the city after having grown weary from the heat and noise of the city communion with nature is very refreshing and will bring a calming feeling influence a walk through a field a stroll by sea shore or a hike across a medal sprinkled with daisies will purge you of the impurities of lies and will cause your heart to beat with the new job and new hope the little cares that worried me I lost them yesterday out in the fields with God a poem from Christmas Eve bells across the snow oh Christmas Merry Christmas has it really come again with its memories and greetings with this joy and went to Spain minor chords are in the carol and the shadow in the light and a spray of Cyprus twining with the Holy Writ tonight and the hush is never broken by left turn light and low as we listened in the Starlight of the valve across the snow Oh Christmas Merry Christmas its not so very long since the other voices blended with the carol and the song if we could but hear them singing as they are singing now if we could see the radiance of the crown on each dear bro there would be no cry to cover no heat in tears to flow as we listened in the Starlight to the bells across the snow oh Christmas Merry Christmas this Nevermore can be we cannot bring again the days of our own shadow Glee but Christmas Happy Christmas sweet Harold and goodwill with holy songs of glory brings holy gladness deal for peace and hope they brighten impatient love big low as we listened in the Starlight to the bells across the snow Francis Ridley
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