Changing Habits

In my devotional time this morning the following was the reflective reading after the scripture readings from the Psalms and book of Acts. I thought it was meaningful and thought you might find meaning it in as well.

 

"We seldom get rid of an evil merely by understanding its causes… and for all our insight, obstinate habits do not disappear until replaced by other habits. But habits are won only by exercise, and appropriate education is the sole means to this end. The patient must be drawn out of himself into other paths, which is the true meaning of "education," and this can only be achieved by an educative will…

 

…no amount of confession and no amount of explaining can make the crooked plant grow straight; it must be trained upon the trellis of the norm by the gardener's art."

 

-From "The Practice of Psychotherapy" by Carl G. Jung

By the way the reading is taken from "A Guide to Prayer for Ministers and Other Servants" by Rueben Job and Norman Shawchuck.
 

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[Brandon]

didn't know you had a blog dude...i will be checking in.

much love,
b