Engage with the offscreen world first“Every morning, wherever I am in the world, I go outside before I look at a screen. I’ve managed to do this consistently for about four years. Often I go outside just for a few moments. But as soon as I step outside, I not only find my senses coming alive, I also find myself feeling smaller — a creature in the midst of creation, rather than the god of a tiny glowing world.“It’s been kind of ridiculously transformative — ridiculously, that is, given how simple this discipline is. I’ve found myself far more grateful, far less anxious and far less interested in whatever my screens have to tell me that day.“Also, for the first time in my life, I consistently know the phase of the moon, which doesn’t seem like such a small thing.”— Andy Crouch, author of “The Techwise Family”Make a plan to seek racial justice and healing“Write a racial justice action plan. The difference between a dream and a goal is a plan. Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream that we love to reference, but what is our plan to achieve that dream? I’m sitting down with my whole family to make this plan using the “ARC of Racial Justice” as a model. We’re going to be intentional about building our awareness, forging relationships with a variety of people, and committing to working on a systemic level to fight racism. Defying the dehumanizing effects of racism is good for our neighbors and our own souls.”— Jemar Tisby, historian and author of “The Color of Compromise” and “How to Fight Racism”Take stock of your life every week“John Newton, the 18th-century Anglican cleric and abolitionist, had a Saturday at 6 p.m. exercise to help him get ready for Sunday. I want to do something like it myself.“It had three parts. The first part was to make two lists — all the mercies, blessings and good things to be thankful for that had happened to him that week. And second, a list of sins — of omission and commission — he had committed against others and God.“The second part was to reflect on the discrepancy between God’s goodness to him and his behavior. This helped him get a refreshed joy in God’s free, undeserved grace. Of course this depended on his grasp of the gospel that we are saved by Jesus’ works, not ours. Without that, this discrepancy would drive you into the ground.