The Deepest Desire Of Our Hearts Is

The Conversation Of Most Middle-class Americans, We Are Told, Revolves Around Consumption: What To Buy, What Was Just Bought, Where To Eat, The Price Of The Neighbor's House, What's On Sale This Week, Our Clothes Or Someone Else's, The Best Car On The Market This Year, Where To Spend A Vacation. Apparently We Can't Stop Eating, Shopping, Or Consuming. Success Is Measured Not In Terms Of Love, Wisdom, And Maturity But By The Size Of One's Pile Of Possessions.

The Ancient Spiritual Tradition Is That God Gives Himself Fully To Us In Silence And Solitude.

There Is A Beautiful Transparency To Honest Disciples Who Never Wear A False Face And Do Not Pretend To Be Anything But Who They Are.

Our Huffing And Puffing To Impress God, Our Scrambling For Brownie Points, Our Thrashing About Trying To Fix Ourselves While Hiding Our Pettiness And Wallowing In Guilt Are Nauseating To God And Are A Flat Denial Of The Gospel Of Grace.

No Man Can Adequately Reach And Explain A Single Word Of God With All His Words