All aspects of my life.

Every season when the Olympics appear on our television, I think the same thought: ”I wish I did anything as well as they do their thing.” And then I sit and watch. Or I come in here and write. Or I take a nap.When the thought came this year, I was rereading The Spirit of the Disciplines by Dallas Willard.

Willard suggests that we often look at the cool things Jesus did and we think, “”I wish I did anything as well as Jesus did being Jesus.” But we look at the hard things he demands and we thi...