Book Review: Making Room for Life by Randy Frazee

I read Making Room for Life a few weeks ago and managed to read the whole thing in about 4-5 hours. It's a fairly quick read, but the application portion is the toughest. The premise of the book is that we are a nation (not a world, but particularly the United States) robbed of community. This book aims to give some wisdom and insight into why that is and what we can do to fix it. The typical American family has no relationship time except with the TV right before falling asleep and with other drivers on the road on the way to soccer practice in a suburban while shoving unhealthy meals down our throats. "This is the privileged life", we tell ourselves. We wake up early and go to bed late fueled by caffeine throughout the day just to survive. We wonder why we have no money when Starbucks sells lattes for $4 a pop. Hmmmm.... sure sounds privileged to me.

Hop into the Hebrew day calendar and with some ambition you can slow life down to a more manageable schedule that gets all the work done before 6pm and time with family comes naturally and rhythmically the way the God designed it in creation. I know that when I plan my day according to the way God created the world, life is a lot less stressful and seems to flow so much better. It's curious that when we do it His way, things tend to go better...