Yesterday during my morning reading I stumbled across the following passage and it took my breath away at how closely it described my Christian walk:
For too long we have thought of the Christian life as essentially either involvment in political, economic, or social concerns that wear us out and result in depression or activity which keeps the church intact and doctrinally pure. Our primary orientation cannot be an institution or some great cause or even other people, but first and forever to God. Unless our identity is hid in God we will never know who we are or what we are to do. Our first act must be prayer, Oratio. To be human is to pray, to meditate both day and night on the love and activity of God. We are called to be continuously formed and transformed by the thought of God within us. Prayer is a dedication to paying attention. Without the singleminded attentiveness of prayer we will rarely hear anything worth repeating or catch a vision worth asking anyone else to gaze upon.
-From “The Spiritual Life” by John H. Westerhoff III and John D. Eusden
