Prayer Allows Us To Wait Without Worry.

There Is A Immense Difference Between Training To Do Something And Trying To Do Something....sp Iritual Transformation Is Not A Matter Of Trying Harder, But Of Training Wisely.... Following Jesus Simply Means Learning From Him How To Arrange My Life Around Activities That Enable Me To Live In The Fruit Of The Spirit

Waiting On The Lord Is A Confident, Disciplined, Expectant, Active, Sometimes Painful Clinging To God.

Spiritual Formation Is For Everyone. Just As There Is An 'outer You' That Is Being Formed And Shaped All The Time, Like It Or Not, By Accident Or On Purpose, So There Is An 'inner You.' You Have A Spirit. And It's Constantly Being Shaped And Tugged At: By What You Hear And Watch And Say And Read And Think And Experience.

It's Better To Have The Faith To Embrace Reality With All Its Pain Than To Cling To The False Comfort Of A Painless Fantasy.

Art Is Built On The Deepest Themes Of Human Meaning: Good And Evil, Beauty And Ugliness, Life And Death, Love And Hate. No Other Story Has Incarnated Those Themes More Than The Story Of Jesus.