Posts in Spiritual Disciplines
The Gracious Discipline of Remembrance

In college, I was taught to “preach the gospel to myself daily,” or rather to flex my mental muscles and engage in the discipline of remembrance. Without remembering, I-- we-- lose clarity of truth and fill in gaps with lies and falsehoods…

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The Love of Sleep

That evening, I made this my prayer and asked the Lord to wake me at 5am.  The next morning, my eyes opened exactly at that time. I was so amazed that I immediately praised the Lord, but not a minute later did I fall back asleep only to wake up at my usual 6am. I realized that I had only asked the Lord to wake me, not to give me the energy to actually get out of bed.  The next night I asked for both and he granted my prayer…

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