Snippet: "You're boring." (Thrill Series)

Snip·pet | ˈsnipit | noun a small piece or brief extract.

I’m cheating today and slipping in a snippet from another book into this series on Trevin Wax’s The Thrill of Orthodoxy’s book. It’s from Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life by Tish Harrison Warren (Lois shared this with me).

“Once a student met with [a professor] to complain about having to read Augustine’s Confessions. ‘It’s boring,’ the student whined. ‘No, it’s not boring,’ the professor responded. ‘You’re boring.’

“…Our worship together as a church forms us in a particular way. We must be shaped into people who value that which gives life, not just what’s trendy or loud or exciting.”

“…Our addiction to stimulation, input, and entertainment empties us out and makes us boring—unable to embrace the ordinary wonders of life in Christ.

“…much of the Christan life is returning over and over to the same work and the same habits of worship. We must contend with the same spiritual struggles again and again. The work of repentance and faith is daily and repetitive. Again and again we repent and believe.”

Can we try to be at least a little less boring?

Maybe put down our phones and pick up a challenging read?

Or turn off the radio and think about something while driving to work, school, or the store?

Or talk to someone close by, asking questions about their lives and passions?

Photo by Debashis RC Biswas on Unsplash.