Praise Habit

"And this way of life should be so compelling and mysterious and other-than that people see us coming from a long way off and it stops them in their tracks and they wait and watch just to see our exchanges and wonder at this life that has been chosen and how to put it on and what is this deeper, truer way of living anyway?"

"It is indeed a sad thing to discover we have been functioning in unintended and unredeemed ways, performing rituals of shiny, sequined adulation that we put on with good intention. We saw a brightly colored sweater and thought, It is fall and the leaves are turning and this will bring comfort, so we pull it on over our habit, over our Christ. It feels big and bulky, but people have told us it looks good on us. It makes us look thinner. It brings out our eyes. But we've looked in the mirror and have seen our eyes. They look hollow and tired. There is an absense of life. We know because we've felt things in our chest go right at one time. We know because we've, on occasion, seen firey love staring back at us from the mirror."

Crowder.