Day 8 Season of Quiet - Update

We've now been intentionally pursuing quiet for one week in the season leading up to Easter. How are you? Have you been surprised at where you have found quiet, rest, focus, or transformation of heart? I'd love to hear what you might have taken away from the suggestions I have made here so far at Life Beyond PBJ. What worked? What didn't? Have you been inspired to give anything up or add something new to find some quietness in your life? Thank you for your feedback! Stay tuned for a special giveaway I am working on closer to the end of our 40 days on this journey...

To recap my goals and suggestions for finding extra quiet in the day:

1) Turn off the radio while driving

2) Get up 30 minutes earlier to start the day

3) Kick the caffeine habit

4) Be graceful, yet strong with failure

5) Add a day of rest

6) Take a "listening walk"

Each day I am challenged by all these goals. What a wonderful gift it is when, in these quiet moments, we find who we are down deep and God's purpose for our lives!

I will have a new suggestion in tomorrow's post for a Season of Quiet. For now, here is a preview.

Dallas Willard is a professor and past director of the School of Philosophy at the University of Southern California. Dallas is the author of the book, The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes Lives, of which the following is taken:
A discipline for the spiritual life is, when the dust of history is blown away, nothing but an activity undertaken to bring us into more effective cooperation with Christ and His Kingdom. As with all disciplines, we should approach the practice of silence in a prayerful, experimental attitude, confident that we shall be led into its right use for us. It is a powerful and essential discipline. Only silence will allow us life-transforming concentration upon God. It allows us to hear the gentle God, whose only Son shall not strive, nor cry; neither shall any man hear His voice above the street noise (Matthew 12:19). It is this God who tells us that in quietness and trust is your strength (Isaiah 30:15).