True Spiritual Growth…

… can be likened to planting a garden. Before planting, you must weed and remove plants that can compete with the roots of the new seeds. there must be enough room for plants to receive the sunlight and air needed to grow to their full size. So it is with our spiritual lives; if there are too many competeing agendas and authorities telling us what to do, we do not have the space we need to fully experience Christ in our midst. We cannot fully experience Jesus is we accept any other competing authority. Jesus plus religion equals something less than what Jeus intended.

from The Way of Jesus by Jonathan and Jennifer Campbell

One theme has been moving in and out of everything I’m currently reading and studying:

The Centrality of Jesus

It is refreshing and reinvigorating. For far too long I have let dogma/people/things get in the center of my thoughts/actions. I’m thinking of replanting my garden this fall. My heart needs room to breathe.