Saturday, June 16, 2007

The long apprenticeship

"There is a great market for religious experience in our world; there is little enthusiasm for the patient acquisition of virtue, little inclination to sign up for a long apprenticeship in what earlier generations of Christians called holiness."

--Eugene Peterson, A Long Obedience in the Same Direction

Lord, make me (us) obedient.
Draw me (us) towards You, and keep me (us) from being scattered.
Let me (us) not tire of the habits that make for holiness,
Or mistake my (our) will for Yours.
Enable me (us) to be patient with those who confuse charisma with your Christ, and in all things
-- my (our) Lord and my (our) God!--
be my (our) first and final focus.

Amen.



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