Live by the Hebrew Day Planner | Margin KC | Randy Frazee

The Secret of the Bedouin Shepherd

• The average Bedouin lives over one hundred years old!

• The Secret of the Bedouin: no stress!

We are stressed out people

About half of all adult Americans cannot fall asleep at night. Forty-nine percent of American adults suffer some form of sleep-related problems such as insomnia. One in six American adults suffer from chronic insomnia.

Humans were designed for camel travel, but most people are now acting like supersonic jets. In a nutshell, most of us are living at too fast a pace…The pace of modern life is stretching all of us beyond our limits. And we are praying for this abuse in the hard and painful currency of stress and anxiety – plain and simple.

Dr. Archibald Hart

The Hebrew Day Planner

Light & Darkness

And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.

Genesis 1:3-5

And God said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years, and let them be lights in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth.” And it was so. God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth, to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.

Genesis 1:14-19

• Everyone has from 6:00am to 6:00pm to get all their work done.

• From 6:00pm – 10:00pm all work is put down for the day and we relate & relax.

• Around 10:00pm everyone goes to bed with a goal of at least six hours of sleep.

The Challenge

Then he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.

Mark 2:27

Try the Hebrew Day Planner as a family for one week!

Discussion Questions:

1. How does your family keep activities coordinated and schedules running smoothly? What kind of tools do you use to help (for example, a combined calendar posted somewhere in the house for all to see, smart phones, weekly meetings)?

2. Do you believe we were created to conform to the divine clocks of night and day and the four seasons? Why or why not?

3. How does your current schedule compare with the Hebrew Day Planner? What changes or adjustments could you realistically make quickly so you could come closer to experiencing this simpler life?

4. Identify one personal action step you can take toward adopting a life of real simplicity.