sTw's Blog

Using the term "Spiritual Formation" instead of "Spiritual Growth" has always been helpful for me.

Instead of always expecting to grow, I can understand my walk with God as a journey. Sometimes we take scenic routes, sometimes detours are the trail.

The hardest parts of my journey are where it doesn't look like "American progress" to me:

...I follow God to a dead end, where He has something to show me, and then we walk out the same way we walked in.

...God calls me to sit down with Him, eat, drink, and rest. I want to walk, and He wants to sit.

It often doesn't feel like a progression of events, but it's not supposed to.

Here's a definition I heard that propmted me to post the question.

"The increase of capacity to love both God and people."