Pastors Are Highly Susceptible To The Sin

When We Submit Our Lives To What We Read In Scripture, We Find That We Are Not Being Led To See God In Our Stories But Our Stories In God's. God Is The Larger Context And Plot In Which Our Stories Find Themselves.

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.

Isn't It Interesting That All Of The Biblical Prophets And Psalmists Were Poets?

In High School I Was Very Much Involved In Poetry. You Cannot Read A Poem Quickly. There's Too Much Going On There. There Are Rhythms And Alliterations. You Have To Read Poetry Slow, Slow, Slow To Absorb It All.

Suffering Attracts Fixers The Way Road-kills Attract Vultures.