sabbath

June 1, 2025

On the blessing of interruptions

If you want to make the most of your life and fulfill your highest purpose, business experts and life coaches tell us, you need to stay focused on your dream or goal and resist distractions and interruptions as much as possible. By letting go of distractions and avoiding interruptions, you’ll increase your prospects of arriving Continue reading

Ruminations

distractions, interruptions, letting go, making the most of your life, Paul and Silas, prayer, priorities in life, purpose, sabbath, slave girl, Solitude, success, systems we live in, Wendell Berry
August 11, 2024

Under the broom tree

It’s an ancient and deeply human question, as relevant today as when the psalmist put it into words three millennia ago. “When the world falls apart, what can the good hope to do” (Ps. 11:3 ICEL)? Or as Eugene Peterson paraphrased it in The Message, “The bottom’s dropped out of the country” and it seems Continue reading

Ruminations

bible, bread of life, broom tree, crisis, dream, Edgar A. Guest, faith, God, God’s whispers, Jeremiah, quietness, renewal, rest, Retreat, returning and rest, sabbath, sacred places, sacred time, sleep, Thoreau, trust, Wendell Berry, When Things Go Wrong, wilderness
March 17, 2024

Theophanies

Last Tuesday, Craig Muir had just left his house for a morning walk when he spotted in the distance, in the middle of nowhere, a silver monolith protruding from the ground. There was no clue how it got there or what it was doing in that spot. “To look at it,” Muir said, “you could Continue reading

Ruminations

2001: A Space Odyssey, Abram, Annunciation, Come and find the quiet center, Damascus Road, distractions, Eli, Elijah, Gabriel, Isaiah, Jacob, Jesus’ baptism, Mary, messages from God, messenger from God, monolith, Moses, sabbath, Samuel, Shirley Murray, St. Paul, theophanies today, Tramsfiguration, whispers of God

About Me

Rich Neal is, in no particular order, a wordsmith and graphic designer; lover of typography, books, and publishing; photographer; contemplative; saunterer; and a retired and still-active pastor. He claims neither special wisdom nor particularly deep insight into life, only occasional glimpses of what lies behind the veil along the way. He shares them here in the hope of connecting the pieces of life’s puzzle that come to him in the journey and would consider it a gift if sharing them also connected him with others who travel an unmarked path toward the same unknown end.

sabbath

On the blessing of interruptions

Under the broom tree

Theophanies