Waiting Means Going About Our Assigned Tasks,

The Only Opportunity You Will Ever Have To Live By Faith Is In The Circumstances You Are Provided This Very Day: This House You Live In, This Family You Find Yourself In, This Job You Have Been Given, The Weather Conditions That Prevail At The ...moment.

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 Is Something About Christmas That Requires A Rug Rat. Little Kids Make Christmas Fun. I Wonder If Could Rent One For The Holidays. When I Was Tiny We Would By A Real Tree And Stay Up Late Drinking Hot Chocolate And Finding Just The Right Place For The Special Decorations.

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.

Christians Don't Simply Learn Or Study Or Use Scripture; We Assimilate It, Take It Into Our Lives In Such A Way That It Gets Metabolized Into Acts Of Love, Cups Of Cold Water, Missions Into All The World, Healing And Evangelism And Justice In Jesus' Name, Hands Raised In Adoration Of The Father, Feet Washed In Company With The Son.