With eyes glazed over, fatigued, and with a casual glance we see the words but little registers with us...

...I was not a good student; not even close. I had failed every grade-10 class, even PE. That tends to happen when you miss over 200 classes in one year...

we have to meet the scriptures half way in the sense that, we must want the benefits of meditation on the Bible in the first place, if we are ever going to give it our attention

meditation from the eastern philosophies and religions are meant to have you look inside yourself, while biblical meditation is focused on looking outside of ourselves, ultimately to God's Word

Like trying to fit into pants, two sizes too small; when we try to squeeze solitude into our lives, that already have little margin, it's not likely to happen.

What we think about in the silence matters

...there's personal risk to stopping long enough to listen to what's going on in our minds, and in our hearts, and possibly what needs attention in our lives...

...in a world filled with distractions, even 15 minutes free of them is too much for people to manage. It's just too uncomfortable.

...if you want to reach any goal, you have to do more than just set the goal; you must decide the regular habits that they will require, and ideally ahead of time.

You missed Monday’s workout, so you wrote off Tuesday. You missed a week, so you wrote off the month. You missed a month, so you wrote off the year.