Devotional Time with Rev. Jacob

This blog is designed to give people an inner look at a devotional life. Taking time each day to spend time with the Lord. The hope is if you travel on this journey with Rev. Jacob Shaw, you may be more inclined to spend time with the Lord as well. I encourage the use of a devotional, a scripture reading and prayer, then finally some form of artistic mark to tie it all together.  Today's devotional is taken from: Peterson, Jordan B.  12 Rules for Life: an antidote to chaos . Great Britain: Penguin Random House, 2018. Rule 1: Stand Up Straight with Your Shoulders Back – part 1 pp. 1-11 Opening Thought: If you have ever been a teenager, rule number one may hold some anxiety to it. I remember in my adolescence my mother often would tell me to stand up straight with my shoulders back, that I looked like I was about to fall asleep. At the time I thought she was being nitpicky. What I didn’t know was that in my early teen years I was a bit depressed. I had not transitioned...

12 Rules for Life: an antidote for chaos This blog is designed to give people an inner look at a devotional life: Taking time each day to spend time with the Lord. The hope is if you travel on this journey with Rev. Jacob Shaw, you may be more inclined to spend time with the Lord as well. I encourage the use of a devotional, a scripture reading and prayer, then finally some form of artistic mark to tie it all together.  Today's devotional is taken from: Peterson, Jordan B.  12 Rules for Life: an antidote to chaos . Great Britain: Penguin Random House, 2018. Overture pp. xxv-xxxv Opening Thought: For this devotional, I prepared by reading the Overture Peterson offered for his book. Peterson reviews some of his personal history which built to inspire the book at hand. What I appreciated about this Overture is that Peterson speaks of himself seeking information about humanity, while he was procrastinating, using online forums to test out little life suggestions. One...

12 Rules for Life: an antidote for chaos This blog is designed to give people an inner look at a devotional life. Taking time each day to spend time with the Lord. The hope is if you travel on this journey with Rev. Jacob Shaw, you may be more inclined to spend time with the Lord as well. I encourage the use of a devotional, a scripture reading and prayer, then finally some form of artistic mark to tie it all together.  Today's devotional is taken from: Peterson, Jordan B.  12 Rules for Life: an antidote to chaos . Great Britain: Penguin Random House, 2018. Forward by Norman Doidge vii - xxiv Opening Thought: I came to know who Jordan B Peterson was due to his controversy over compelled speech and gender language. Peterson took a position to stand against government enforced compelled speech and, within a matter of months, this Canadian professor was a controversial household name. I watched a few videos on YouTube, which highlighted Peterson’s remarks on the compe...