{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Ascend Men","title":"Margin","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":426,"description":"This is not your usual interview or article so listen-up.\nA huge thanks to Greg Barber for cooking-up our “Summer Sizzlers” Season. The articles and reflections of the last few weeks had a thread of “community” running through them and were great reminders of why we are not meant to do this journey alone.\nThis week I want to thank Luke Franks for highlighting a book extract:“I think of rest as the margins around the page of a book I’m reading. The words matter, but without the margins they would run into one another and be senseless. When I rest, I create order and context around everything I do.\nI don’t rest as a reward or to gain something, but to return to the original expression of human design. I am a being not a doing. I am not a tool in the belt of a workman but a picture in the wallet of my father. God doesn’t get me out to use me, but to enjoy me. \nRhythms of rest , especially in a time of work and creative output, return me to those truths.”From Joshua Luke Smith’s book: “Something you once knew: Waking up to the extraordinary in your ordinary life”\nPlease complete the survey here: https://thec3church.typeform.com/ascendpodcast \nA Time for Everything - Ecclesiastes Chapter 3:1 There is a time for everything,\n    and a season for every activity under the heavens:\n2 a time to be born and a time to die,\n    a time to plant and a time to uproot,\n3 a time to kill and a time to heal,\n    a time to tear down and a time to build,\n4 a time to weep and a time to laugh,\n    a time to mourn and a time to dance,\n5 a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,\n    a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,\n6 a time to search and a time to give up,\n    a time to keep and a time to throw away,\n7 a time to tear and a time to mend,\n    a time to be silent and a time to speak,\n8 a time to love and a time to hate,\n    a time for war and a time for peace.\n\nFOR UPCOMING ASCEND EVENTS sign up here.\nTo subscribe to our weekly inspiring emails, please...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/M-BZVbTOHNiWhFJ1u8JasR3wc1UZugDx_NLX3tH-sqk/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzM1NjY1LzE2NjYz/NTk2MzYtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}