# The Pastor ![rw-book-cover](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41FWQBzGIvL._SL200_.jpg) ## Metadata - Author: [[Eugene H. Peterson]] - Full Title: The Pastor - Category: #books ## Highlights - Several years later I came across a book by the Scottish pastor, George Adam Smith: The Historical Geography of the Holy Land. He had spent several months on horseback and mule crisscrossing Palestine in the late nineteenth century, describing what seemed to me, from his detailed reporting, every square foot of that land. ([Location 266](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004HD630C&location=266)) - This place and home on the shore of what’s left of the glacier have provided the very conditions that North American culture has failed to provide, conditions in which I have been able to realize and live into the many dimensions that go into forming the vocation of pastor. If I need an adjective to identify the conditions, I think sacred would do just fine: sacred space—uncrowded and quiet; sacred canopy—the big sky “telling the glory of God” sacred ground—rocks and hills, mountains and meadows marked by the footsteps of my grandparents and parents, my children and grandchildren, praying and climbing, strolling and wandering—sojourners all—on our way to what the writer of Hebrews names “a better country.” ([Location 274](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004HD630C&location=274)) - The way we learn something is more influential than the something that we learn. ([Location 590](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004HD630C&location=590))