Sloth Is Most Often Evidenced In Busyness

The Way Of Jesus Cannot Be Imposed Or Mapped — It Requires An Active Participation In Following Jesus As He Leads Us Through Sometimes Strange And Unfamiliar Territory, In Circumstances That Become Clear Only In The Hesitations And Questionings, In The Pauses And Reflections Where We Engage In Prayerful Conversation With One Another And With Him.

When We Submit Our Lives To What We Read In Scripture, We Find That We Are Not Being Led To See God In Our Stories But Our Stories In God's. God Is The Larger Context And Plot In Which Our Stories Find Themselves.

It Is Not Easy To Convey A Sense Of Wonder, Let Alone Resurrection Wonder, To Another. It’s The Very Nature Of Wonder To Catch Us Off Guard, To Circumvent Expectations And Assumptions. Wonder Can’t Be Packaged, And It Can’t Be Worked Up. It Requires Some Sense Of Being There And Some Sense Of Engagement.

Pity Is One Of The Noblest Emotions Available To Human Beings; Self-pity Is Possibly The Most Ignoble . . . . [it] Is An Incapacity, A Crippling Emotional Disease That Severely Distorts Our Perception Of Reality . . . A Narcotic That Leaves Its Addicts Wasted And Derelict.

I Will Not Try To Run My Own Life Or The Lives Of Others; That Is God's Business.