Richard Monyer’s Reviews > Apprenticeship with Jesus: Learning to Live Like the Master > Status Update

"The primary activity of living as an apprentice to Jesus is to be with him in the river that is our life, accepting the relationship, enjoying the relationship, allowing the past to be downstream, waiting with him as the future flows into the present moment."

"Somehow we’ve changed salvation from being an exciting journey toward union with God into a legal transaction. We’ve substituted the four spiritual laws for the two supreme commandments and gone from living with God as his apprentice to going through the motions of discipleship as a forgiven sinner."

I am also motivated by the words of C. S. Lewis: “What we have been told is how we can be drawn into Christ—can become part of that wonderful present which the young Prince of the universe wants to offer to His Father—that present which is Himself and therefore us in Him. It is the only thing we were made for.”

"... the most powerful cure for burnout is to step out from under the weight of the world and to fall in step with the dance of the Trinity. When you are not dancing with God, we concluded, it is very natural to feel alone, lost, and confused."