On Rhythms & Routines: The “How to Run Your Day” Issue

Despite our best efforts, though, somehow the new of the year wears off over the months and by the time the weather warms, life is in its lovely, unavoidable spiral once more.

So why bother? 

Sarah Clarkson in The Lifegiving Home says it this way:

“When you understand the reality of the incarnation, the way that the physical trappings of our lives and our use of time and space are places where God either comes in His creative presence or remains at bay, you understand that nothing is neutral. Nothing. You can’t just waste an hour on the Internet. You can’t just miss one sunrise in its beauty. No room is just space. No hour is meaninglaess. No meal is mere sustenance. Every rhythm and atom of existence are spaces in which the Kingdom can come, in which the story of God’s love can be told anew, in which the stuff of life can be turned marvelously into love.” 

It all matters. It all counts.

Putting rhythms and routines in your day is a way to ensure you’re living with intentionality. It won’t be perfect and that’s alright. On the less than perfect days you’ll have rails laid to help you “get the train back on the track,” so to speak. 

Rhythms and routines are essential – even when we aren’t able to keep them perfectly. 

In fact, rhythms and routines don’t ask us to keep them perfectly. 

Schedules do; they demand promptness and if you fail you are behind.

Rhythms feel more like breathing; routines feel more like the rising and setting of the sun.

Predictable and comfortable. Regular and dependable, but flexible. Ebbing and flowing. Changing and growing by season. 

Seasons of the year.

Seasons of life. 

There is a naturalness to it all.

Read the transcript on my Substack.

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