Laura

“Each time you get a little mental breath in the busyness of your life—that split second after you hit send on the email, the moment when you come to a red light, or those first conscious thoughts when you awake from sleep—through deliberate practice, you can train your mind to come back to God, come back to God, come back to God…”
― John Mark Comer, Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus. Become like him. Do as he did.

“The first and most basic thing we can and must do is to keep God before our minds….This is the fundamental secret of caring for our souls. Our part in thus practicing the presence of God is to direct and redirect our minds constantly to Him.”
― John Mark Comer, Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus. Become like him. Do as he did.

“peek: The question for goal #1, “be with Jesus,” was, How do we be with Jesus? And the answer was, basically, we abide in the vine; we live rooted in a relational connection to Jesus by the Spirit. The question for goal #2 is not all that different: How do we become like Jesus? A full answer would take a book,[35] but here’s the SparkNotes version: through contemplation. We let God love us into people of love.”
― John Mark Comer, Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus. Become like him. Do as he did.

“We can’t just know about the love of God; we have to know the love of God,[37] to experience it in our inner beings, if we are to be transformed into people of love. And in Paul’s paradigm, this transformation happens as we “contemplate,” as we gaze, as we look at God, looking at us, in love.”
― John Mark Comer, Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus. Become like him. Do as he did.