Fellow students of the Word:
I leave on Sunday, July 26 for an extended writing retreat near Nashville, Indiana. Having rented a log cabin and being by myself, I hope to get a significant amount of writing done. I ask you to pray for me during this time, asking God for clarify of thought and expression. I’ll give you an update around August 10.
God’s blessings on you in your respective ministries.
PS – The hardback copy of Revelation’s Rhapsody has sold out and College Press will soon release it in a paperback edition.
Dr. Lowery’s speaking schedule has been updated to include locations and dates through November 2009. He’ll be visiting churches in Indiana, Virginia, Missouri, and Illinois as he continues researching and writing his next book, Revelation’s Rhapsody: Dancing to the Lyrics of the Lamb. Stop by if you’re in the area.
I recently re-read Evelyn Underhill’s The Spiritual Life and underlined her famous observation that “Most people spend their lives trying to conjugate the verbs ‘to want,’ ‘to have’ and ‘to keep’—craving, clutching, clinging—when all the Spirit wills us to do is to conjugate the verb ‘to be.’”
Her words hit me harder this time around. I have been guilty of craving, clutching, and clinging. Even after all these years of knowing better and striving to do better. Do any of us crave success or something we think we need but we find out once we have it that we are not joyful? Do any of us cling to things that have become like millstones? Do any of us cling to the slippery things of life and we have drifted far from shore?