Running After Something You Already Have

A Dream About Montreat, Evelyn Underhill, and Learning to Let Go

I had a dream last night — about one of my favorite retreat centers, and one of my favorite books.

The setting of my dream was the Montreat Conference Center, in Black Mountain NC, just up the road from Asheville. I’ve been to Montreat numerous times over the past six or seven years, but always in a leadership role. But in last night’s dream, I was a participant in a program, led by one of the faculty members of Columbia Theolog...