Today Henry and Harrison bring insights from the past few days. Henry brings two concepts from the famous book The Imitation of Christ. Harrison talks about a recent insight in the role discipline must play, and a powerful line from C.S. Lewis's work The Screw Tape Letters.

“Discipline is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. Without a clear vision, discipline is not transformative, but merely tyranny.”

- Harrison

The ScrewTape Letters - C.S. Lewis

“ Work hard, then, on the disappointment or anticlimax which is certainly coming to the patient during his first few weeks as a churchman. The enemy allows this disappointment to occur on the threshold of every human endeavor. 

“In every department of life it marks the transition from dreaming aspiration to laborious doing.”

“He therefore refuses to carry them, by their mere affections and habits, to any of the  goals which He sets before them. He leaves them to ‘do it on their own.’ And there lies our opportunity. But also, remember, there lies our danger. If once they get through this initial dryness successfully, they become much less dependent on emotion and therefore much harder to tempt.”