There are times when I am utterly convinced that the simple act of putting pen to paper to personally scribe the wisdom I hope to add to my already cluttered brain will make the difference. Sometimes it does... sometimes it doesn't. There are days when the scrawl is illegible and days when the loops and flow of ink are beautiful. I've been doing this for as long as I can remember.
I have decided that I'm going to share my collected lines from A Long Obedience in the Same Direction by Eugene Peterson, as I go along through the book. I failed when I attempted to blog through Ann Voskamp's book because I was attempting to answer questions in a reader's guide. I think that it was because I wasn't simply going with what I felt was important - if God is dealing with me over something, or trying to teach me a lesson... that is what I will be drawn to write down. In the act of typing/writing these again, perhaps they will etch deeper into my labyrinth of gray matter and remain.
Chapter 1 - Discipleship
**note - some things are directly quoted, others are paraphrased or my take - page #'s are noted where I have them in my notes.
- harmful to Christians is the assumption that anything worthwhile can be acquired at once - the assumption that if something can be done at all, it can be done quickly and efficiently (pg 11)
- there is a great market for religious experience - but there is little enthusiasm for the patient acquisition of virtue and little inclination to sign up for the long apprenticeship in holiness (pg 12)
- "The essential thing 'in heave and earth' is... that there should be long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living." ~Friedrich Nietzche (pg 13)
Disciple - people who spend our lives apprenticed to our master, Jesus Christ
Pilgrim - people who spend our lives going someplace ~ going to God by the path of Jesus.
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