Prayer is difficult for me. The church fathers knew this. When you read the words of the desert monks (and we all probably should), they talk about their distracting thoughts and sleepy eyes, their lustful desires- all the things that especially ramp up when they knelt down to pray. They understood those distractions as enemy […]
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Bach to Basics I like Johann Sebastian Bach. For my money, he’s the greatest Western composer who ever lived. As someone who used to play the upright bass quite regularly, I think you could build a solid technique just by studying the cello suites. I remember the first time my dad played me a recording […]
If I water the flowers when it’s convenient, they will die. And they have. But if I stick to a schedule, they will flourish. There are enough gardening metaphors in the Bible to describe the spiritual life to help us connect the dots there.
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