8. Ordering Your Private World- Gordon MacDonald (re-read)

-live as a called person, not a driven person. Called people understand stewardship, know who they are, and know his/her mission.

-"But mindfulness is a matter of discipline and hard work. Mindlessness is the result of laziness and fear." p.105
Work at being thinkers. "Their minds are alert and alive, taking on fresh amounts of information every day, regularly producing new discoveries and conclusions. They commit themselves to the daily exercise of the mind."p.108
"Christianity is emasculated of its intellectual relevance. It remains a vehicle of spirituality and moral guidance at the individual level perhaps; at the communal level it is little more than an expression of sentimentalized togetherness." (Harry Blamires, The Christian Mind)

-Cultivate the inner garden. Solitude. Listen to God when you pray.
-No outer props necessary. E. Stanley Jones, Methodist missionary to India, when he was old and had a stroke: "I need no outer props to hold up my faith, for my faith holds me." p.149

7 Jan, 2017
Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2003

R: I'm reminded of the importance of study and setting apart time for study, Sabbath, appointment with God. I am ashamed of the time I have wasted in amusement (not-thinking). Lord, please help me to be a faithful steward and to be controlled by a cultivated inner self that knows Your Presence because I have spent time listening to You.