Creating Space for God...

Discipline is the other side of discipleship. Discipleship without discipline is like waiting to run in the marathon without ever practicing. Discipline without discipleship is like always practicing for the marathon but never participating.

It is important, however, to realize that discipline in the spiritual life is not the same as discipline in sports. Discipline in sports is the concentrated effort to master the body so that it can obey the mind better.

Discipline in the spiritual life is the concentrated effort to create the space and time where God can become our master and where we can respond freely to God's guidance.

Thus, discipline is the creation of boundaries that keep time and space open for God. Solitude requires discipline, worship requires discipline, caring for other requires discipline. They all ask us to set apart a time and a place where God's gracious presence can be acknowledged and responded to. - Henri Nouwen

Really... you have to read...

Not for Sale: The Return of the Global Slave Trade--and How We Can Fight It by David Batstone

My review

rating: 5 of 5 stars
So Saturday night is date night and last night Richard took me to borders so that I could check this book out. We sat at a little table while I drank coffee and he read the first two chapters to me.

We were hooked, or at least I was... I am the night watch in the family he is the morning so though he was interested was also very sleepy.

I went to the prayer room to finish the book and pray! This book is incredibly sobering, informative, and well written... the only thing that could have been more moving was is if Lou Engle was reading certain key lines from Abolitionist referred to in the book out loud to me... though Richard did read a few key lines in a Lou voice with motions and all... (let the Lou fans understand)

Don't read in a place you can't cry out to the Righteous King...

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