Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Question of the day ??

What is the most important (or most helpful) spiritual discipline in your personal life?

posted by Greg Hazelrig @ 6:47 AM   4 comments

4 Comments:

At 1/24/06, 7:46 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hi Greg...Prayer...thanks for the question...have a prayer-full day...

 
At 1/24/06, 7:32 PM, Blogger Jody Harrington said...

Reading scripture.

 
At 1/30/06, 9:05 AM, Blogger John said...

Daily Bible reading, reflection, and teaching.

I'm not sure that that really answers the question. I can't really sustain my faith without all of the major spiritual disciplines.

Before my wedding two years ago, I was pushing very hard at bodybuilding so that I could, uh, present a very nice present to bride. When bodybuilders are getting ready for a competition, they go through a process called carb depletion/carb loading. That means that for a few days, the bodybuilder will eat nothing but protein. Not a single gram of carbohydate. Then, about two days before competition, he starts eating carbs. The impact of the process makes the muscles look more muscley.

Anyway, I had the strangest hunger while I was carb depleting. I could down protein shake after protein shake, but still feel desperately hungry.

The spiritual disciplines are like that. If I engage in only one or two, even in vast quantities, I'm still hungry without the others. Like a deer pants for water, my soul thirsts for you, O God. And in different ways: prayer, study, worship. You aren't spiritually whole without all of them.

 
At 1/30/06, 9:25 AM, Blogger Greg Hazelrig said...

I get your point John. And I would have to say that I am not whole without prayer, personal bible study (lectio divina style), and my listening to God through sermon prep and actual preaching. We also have monthly Communion. If this were to change to quarterly or yearly, methinks there would be a great problem there as well.

Thanks.

 

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