The Spirit Works Through Community. Somebody Will

Spirituality Is No Different From What Weve Been Doing For Two Thousand Years Just By Going To Church And Receiving The Sacraments, Being Baptized, Learning To Pray, And Reading Scriptures Rightly. Its Just Ordinary Stuff.

Love Is Not A Word That Describes My Feelings; It Is Not A Technique By Which I Fulfill My Needs; It Is Not An Ideal, Abstract And Pure, On Which I Meditate Or Discourse. It Is Acting In Correspondence With Or In Response To God In Relation To Persons.

To Follow Jesus Implies That We Enter Into A Way Of Life That Is Given Character And Shape And Direction By The One Who Calls Us. To Follow Jesus Means Picking Up Rhythms And Ways Of Doing Things That Are Often Unsaid But Always Derivative From Jesus, Formed By The Influence Of Jesus. To Follow Jesus Means That We Can't Separate What Jesus Is Saying From What Jesus Is Doing And The Way That He Is Doing It. To Follow Jesus Is As Much, Or Maybe Even More, About Feet As It Is About Ears And Eyes" (the Way Of Jesus, Eugene H. Peterson, 22).

You Don't Make Your Words True By Embellishing Them With Religious Lace. In Making Your Speech Sound More Religious, It Becomes Less True.

A Person Has To Get Fed Up With The Ways Of The World Before He, Before She Acquires An Appetite For The World Of Grace.