Sunday, September 20, 2015

My Two Days With Eugene Peterson

...they practiced the art of paying attention — to us, to what the Lord was doing in us, and to how they might participate in it during our visit.

...it was a mark of his lifelong habit of letting pastoral work be unhurried. In our conversations, there were no mass-produced answers to announce, no pithy truisms to make us write down. There was just careful, slow attention.

They give dignity to the unglamorous, ordinary work of pastoral ministry. The truth is, much of my life is nothing like what gets posted on social media.  Read further here....

-- Glenn Packiam