This week I want to suggest that sometimes the best way to practice resurrection is to do nothing. Sam Phillips is a wonderful singer/songwriter whose work I highly recommend. Here are lyrics from her song 'Don't Do Anything’:
I, I love you
When you don't
When you don't do anything
When you're useless
I love you more
When you don't do anything
When you don't move, when you don't try
When you don't say anything
When you don't move, when you don't win
When you don't make anything look
I, I love you
When you don’t When you don't do anything
When you don't want, when you don't lie
When you don't make any sense
When you don't go, when you don't hide
When you don't think anything
Sometimes the best practice is to give up practicing for a bit because practices have a sneaky way of grabbing the spotlight rather than operating behind the spotlight. Holding a practice too tightly can lead to death not resurrection. The God who sustains resurrection loves us, and surrounds us with grace in times of good practice and inconsistent practice, or when you find you can’t do anything. If your practice has started to take up a disproportionate amount of space in your psyche, step away for a bit, or hold it more loosely than you usually do and you just might find it returning a happier companion. GS