Links for the Weekend (2024-09-27)

Each Friday, I’ll post links to 3–5 resources from around the web you may want to check out.

Running and Rest Aren’t Opposites

Trevin Wax builds on a good perspective about running and rest that he heard from a good friend.

Running and rest are to be kept in healthy tension, Lim says, so we’re sacrificially ambitious in our kingdom service and securely anchored in Jesus and his love for us. Right rhythms are the key to ensuring running doesn’t become just a mask for restlessness, and rest doesn’t turn into a spiritualized form of resignation.

The Autonomy Trap

I’m not sure how better to describe this article than that it is both beautiful and moving. James Wood writes about his childhood, his parents’ divorce, his relationship with his father, commitment and the idea of freedom, and how a community of Christians brought him to Christ. This is on the longer side, but it’s worth it.

I come from a stock of relationship-quitters. During my childhood, pretty much everyone in my life had divorced at least once, extended family connections were strained, long-term friends were nonexistent, and moves were frequent. Over time I came to adopt a conception of freedom that had destroyed the lives of many around me, and which would threaten to destroy my own as well: the popular idea of freedom as unconstrained choice. Since this is impossible, the default was a more achievable version: the ability to drop commitments and relationships at any point when they become too complicated. Freedom as the license to leave when things get tough.

Love (III) — George Herbert

Our poem of the week: Love (III), by George Herbert. This poem provides one answer to the question: What does it look like for God to love sinful people?

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