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Waiting means going about our assigned tasks, confident that God will provide the meaning and the conclusions.

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I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.
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.
There are no experts in the company of Jesus. We are all beginners, necessarily followers, because we don’t know where we are going.
No life of faith can be lived privately. There must be overflow into the lives of others.
It is easier to find guides, someone to tell you what to do, than someone to be with you in a discerning, prayerful companionship as you work it out yourself. This is what spiritual direction is
Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God; it whets our appetite.
Feelings are great liars. If Christians worshipped only when they felt like it, there would be precious little worship. We think that if we don’t feel something there can be no authenticity in doing it. But the wisdom of God says something different: that we can act ourselves into a new way of feeling much quicker than we can feel ourselves into a new way of acting. Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship.
GOD made my life complete when I placed all the pieces before him. When I got my act together, he gave me a fresh start. Now I'm alert to GOD's ways; I don't take God for granted. Every day I review the ways he works; I try not to miss a trick. I feel put back together, and I'm watching my step. GOD rewrote the text of my life when I opened the book of my heart to his eyes.
The life of faith is a daily exploration of the constant and countless ways in which Gods grace and love are expereinced
Prayer is the disciplined refusal to act before God acts.