It was this time last year when I began my Sabbatical and decided to stop publishing my reflections on scripture for those five weeks that I was away. Though I wrote even more than normal during those weeks, not publishing them got me out of the habit. For those of you who have followed my writing here, you likely noticed that I went from publishing a few times per week to perhaps once per month.
I still hope to get back to a more consistent rhythm, but as I continue to find my way back to that, I plan to begin posting a daily quote in this space. I have been doing this for two months on social media. Every morning I review a few highlights from books I have read, then I choose one of those to post.
This is what I posted this morning:
Galatians 5:22–23 (ESV)
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
"All patience or impatience is ultimately patience or impatience with someone . . . Impatience is ultimately rooted in (selfishness). Patience is difficult because it concerns . . . the natural condition of being immediately aware only of one's own thoughts and feelings. . . . I know only my own thoughts and am intimately aware of only my own needs, which naturally incline me to put myself first. The result is frustration that I'm not first, and this strongly tempts me to be impatient." Patience "is not a fundamental virtue so much as a complex of other virtues," particularly generosity, self-control, and humility." (Karen Swallow Prior, On Reading Well)
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