2.25.2010

The Discipline of Discipline

I've recently finished up an assignment on spiritual disciplines. Long story short I had to pick 2 spiritual disciplines and practice them for 15 days. Wish I could say that I stuck it out for 15 days straight but, for what I did, I still learned alot.

I picked the discipline of silence, and the discipline of journaling. I seemed to get more out of the whole practice of silence than I did the journaling. Maybe it was just something that I was doing wrong, or the fact that now since we have computers, the idea of taking the time to record, by hand, the events of the day is just, at best, a little time consuming.

Regardless, I learned a lot practicing of these two disciplines. Adding routine silence to start the day seems to not only calm my worries before the day, but its also allowing God to speak. I discovered I like to talk way, way too much, even if its about "good things". Sometimes God just wants us to listen, and starting out in silence, focusing on who God is rather than what God needs to do for the day, well, all I can say is I've experienced a noticeable difference in my spiritual condition and relationship with God because of it.