Comments on: A Sabbath Heart http://thevine.glenmarchurch.org/2008/03/07/a-sabbath-heart/ Various thoughts on issues pertinent to worship and any other things that pop into our heads! Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:36:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Glen Lauber http://thevine.glenmarchurch.org/2008/03/07/a-sabbath-heart/#comment-15 Glen Lauber Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:02:10 +0000 http://thevine.glenmarchurch.org/2008/03/07/a-sabbath-heart/#comment-15 This is a Sabbath take on the Steven R. Covey concept, "The Time Matrix," (http://www.orgcoach.net/timematrix.html). Covey encourages us to focus on the things that are "urgent" and "important," then "not urgent" and "important." He encourages us to avoid things that are "not important." The website gives exmples. Of course, for Sabbath people, this is a good practice for six days a week. If we do only "important" things on the seventh day, the Rabbi proposes those things should also not be "urgent." I suggest we try not to do those "important" things, urgently. This is a Sabbath take on the Steven R. Covey concept, “The Time Matrix,” (http://www.orgcoach.net/timematrix.html).

Covey encourages us to focus on the things that are “urgent” and “important,” then “not urgent” and “important.” He encourages us to avoid things that are “not important.” The website gives exmples. Of course, for Sabbath people, this is a good practice for six days a week.

If we do only “important” things on the seventh day, the Rabbi proposes those things should also not be “urgent.” I suggest we try not to do those “important” things, urgently.

]]> By: Mandy Sayers http://thevine.glenmarchurch.org/2008/03/07/a-sabbath-heart/#comment-13 Mandy Sayers Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:55:06 +0000 http://thevine.glenmarchurch.org/2008/03/07/a-sabbath-heart/#comment-13 I heard about a cool read on Sabbath from this rabbi (the Shalom in the Home guy). He says normally we are consumed by the "urgent" and we back-burner the "important." You know, work is urgent and family is important. On Sabbath, we do not do the urgent. That's for the other days. On Sabbath we spend bulk time (quantity time) on the important. I found this sort of liberating as a concept. I heard about a cool read on Sabbath from this rabbi (the Shalom in the Home guy). He says normally we are consumed by the “urgent” and we back-burner the “important.” You know, work is urgent and family is important. On Sabbath, we do not do the urgent. That’s for the other days. On Sabbath we spend bulk time (quantity time) on the important. I found this sort of liberating as a concept.

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