Start simple, stay focused, be practical, yet don't shy from big goals

Sometimes I try to do too much. Or, sometimes also, I think about doing too much.

There's only so much we can do in this human condition. (Now I'm sounding like Michael Horton's book on how everything regarding religion should be 'ordinary.' I'm not going there...)

I just need to be awake and chill. Listen to some Mozart symphonies.

All lives of spiritual attainment fizzle at the end, don't they? No? Yes? Some do, some don't?

One thing bothers me lately... I've read the Bible cover-to-cover eight times and right now I couldn't tell you what the subject matter of the Book of Titus is.

I could find out quickly, but you would think I'd know. Maybe I know at some deep level. I mean, maybe it's 'there', for when I need it. There in deep memory.

Maybe I should be reading the Book of Titus right now. [Reading Titus...] OK, it's one of the church letters. Paul is writing to Titus who is in Crete, and he's telling him what to say to the people in Crete who profess the faith (I assume) and are setting up churches and so on. (On a complete reading of the Bible by the time you get to Titus you admittedly are kind of racing to the finish line. You can overlook little single-mention words like 'Crete.')

Titus 1:2 caught my attention. Since salvation by Jesus, from before the foundation of the world, involves our hope in heaven, the verse is explained.

Well, we still have to build our spiritual body and do battle with the forces of evil that are in the world, in our fallen nature, and in the Devil himself.

I'm going to find and listen to a lesser-known Mozart symphony...maybe the G minor...