Spiritual practices and Shame.
I've been having a conversation the last 2 days with God, which as they always do, started with me wondering about things. My latest wondering: how do some Christians come to the conclusion that the ‘right’ way to be a Christian involves, church every Sunday, 5 am wake ups, reading the bible for 2 hours/doing a devotion, MUST read their bible and pray every day and if you don’t then….. what do you tell yourself? I had been telling myself I must be a bad Christian or not Christian ‘enough’ because I don’t have these set routines. But who sets these? Don’t get me wrong, spiritual disciplines are important, as is being daily and deliberate. I’ve been thinking of it like this: Imagine the person you are the closest to, perhaps a husband or wife or someone you love very much, that relationship did not come about without some type of spending quality time, perhaps being daily and deliberate working on that relationship, yet now you know this person and there are still new and excitin...