Stories Are Verbal Acts Of Hospitality.

Neither The Adventure Of Goodness Nor The Pursuit Of Righteousness Gets Headlines.

Every Call To Worship Is A Call Into The Real World.... I Encounter Such Constant And Widespread Lying About Reality Each Day And Meet With Such Skilled And Systematic Distortion Of The Truth That I'm Always In Danger Of Losing My Grip On Reality. The Reality, Of Course, Is That God Is Sovereign And Christ Is Savior. The Reality Is That Prayer Is My Mother Tongue And The Eucharist My Basic Food. The Reality Is That Baptism, Not Myers-briggs, Defines Who I Am.

Sloth Is Most Often Evidenced In Busyness ... In Frantic Running Around, Trying To Be Everything To Everyone, And Then Having No Time To Listen Or Pray, No Time To Become The Person Who Is Doing These Things.

O God, When My Faith Gets Overladen With Dust, Blow It Clean With The Wind Of Your Spirit. When My Habits Of Obedience Get Stiff And Rusty, Anoint Them With The Oil Of Your Spirit. Restore The Enthusiasm Of My First Love For You.

Wisdom Is The Art Of Living Skillfully In Whatever Actual Conditions We Find Ourselves.