Personal Retreat: A Special Date With God

Work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.
—George MacDonald

When I worked in Washington, D.C., I often ate my bag lunch as I walked to my favorite art gallery. Then, in silence, I focused my attention on one painting until time to return to work. Only one painting, because I knew that I couldn't gallop through an art gallery and expect to appreciate or understand what I was looking at. Works of art, literature,