If you keep the Sabbath, you start to see creation not as somewhere to get away from your ordinary life, but a place to frame attentiveness to your life. Eugene Peterson, The Pastor The week before Christmas, I make a pact with myself: I will sit down and finish writing personal notes in each of several cards lying in a stack on my desk. These cards were pulled out of a box on the first day of December, along with ornaments for the tree and decorations for the mantel. My aspirations about the holiday