Along this life journey, I've observed that it's quite common for humans to live on auto-pilot. Life is a series of rote words and actions motivated by nothing more than base human appetites and a lifetime of the systemic conditioning of family, education, and local culture. When I decided to follow Jesus, I was taught to honestly ask the question that has made all the difference in my life. (Chapter-a-Day podcast from Exodus 35; The text version of every Chapter-a-Day episode can be found at tomvanderwell.com along with a simple index of all Chapter-a-Day episodes from this journey through the book of Exodus.