been

away, been busy, been tired, been apathetic, been playing ev nova, been bag: you choose.

now procrastinating (which is an excuse i can buy) in writing a talk for wednesday about spiritual disciplines, particularly disciplines of abstinence:

w. r. inge, quoted by dallas willard in the spirit of the disciplines:

"If we feel that any habit or pursuit, harmless in itself, is keeping us from God and sinking us deeper in the things of earth; if we find that things which others can do with impunity are for us the occasion of falling, then abstinence is our only course. Abstinence alone can recover for us the real value of what should have been for our help but which has been an occasion of falling... it is necessary that we should steadily resolve to give up anything that comes between ourselves and God."