# Writing in the Margins

## Metadata
- Author: [[Lisa Nichols Hickman]]
- Full Title: Writing in the Margins
- Category: #books
## Highlights
- God’s best work occurs in the margins. If we have the courage to step into that wide-open space, God will meet us there. ([Location 268](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00F8JTN1A&location=268))
- Have you done this? Made it through Genesis and Exodus, then turned the page to Leviticus and those burnt offerings and lists of laws and been completely done. All resolve goes up in ashes with those pigeons and turtledoves. So much for the chart and the good intentions. When the daily discipline of Bible reading is already slighted by the sleepy eyes for the evening devotion, or the ruse of busy days for the morning reading, and then those Leviticus chapters unfold, we can’t help but get interrupted. In my head, I know that Leviticus is the story of how God met God’s people, of how Israel engaged with and danced with and lived with the living God. But sometimes my eyes glaze over, nonetheless. ([Location 276](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00F8JTN1A&location=276))
- What if the Bible were our first field? A place to practice this discipline—of making sacred the edge—that we then take and practice in the other portions and fields of our lives? ([Location 299](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00F8JTN1A&location=299))
- Leviticus 23 is all about the spiritual discipline of margins—that is, keeping the edges of our fields, our days, our weeks, our hearts, our minds, our lives open and available to the surprising work of God. ([Location 302](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00F8JTN1A&location=302))
- Writing in the margins is about making sacred connections between ancient text and present day—an arc spanning time and space—that intersects the now and the real and the sometimes overwhelming, and finds wisdom and depth from those connections. ([Location 310](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00F8JTN1A&location=310))
- Writing in the margins of your Bible is, simply, a way of having an ongoing, raucous conversation with God. ([Location 326](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00F8JTN1A&location=326))
- But margin writing is not only about the pen and paper. It is more centrally about link-making, path-building, commentary, and memory. ([Location 1858](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00F8JTN1A&location=1858))