Shabbat & Kashrut
God’s doing something in me. It seems over the last couple months there’s been a new spiritual hunger inside that has to do with spiritual discipline and the desire to somehow make God more and more a part of my everyday life — basically, to make even the littlest acts in my life spiritual.
So I was really excited to start reading Lauren Winner’s Mudhouse Sabbath this morning. Here’s part of the description from the back of the book:
After her conversion from Orthodox Judaism to Christianity, Lauren Winner found that her life was indelibly marked by the rich tradtions and spiritual practices of Judaism. She set out to discover how she could incorporate some of these practices into her new faith.
This morning I read her thoughts about two Jewish practices: Sabbath observance & attentive eating. And so, this morning I’m asking myself…how do these practices fit into my life. Or maybe that’s the wrong question…maybe I should be asking, how do I fit my life into these practices? Two challenges loom large — 1. I work at a church that has services both Saturday & Sunday and therefore, I work, often both days and 2. I have four small children that need tended to.
I admire David & Megan…they already practice both Shabbat.
I LOVE that book!!!!!!!
Tim
October 10, 2007 at 7:48 am
feeling hungry is good… epecially when you know something really tasty is on the way…
I beleive that for you Charlie… God awakens hunger… to expand our ability to be filled with HIM.
It is a beautiful thing to push away from a lovely meal… physical hunger satisfied…it is a beautiful thing to anticpate (feel hunger) an encounter with God… and through the process of encounter come away from His presence satisfied.
we don’t feel condemdned… failed as humans when we hunger again…
we should not feel condemned or shamed as Christians when we feel new hunger for the reality of God!
leesat
October 10, 2007 at 12:57 pm
I am going to read this book next.
thanks for the insight.
aprilberardi
January 23, 2008 at 11:24 pm