I think most of us want our faith to be simply more real, more dynamic, and more connected to the people around us. The problem is, we don’t use what we already have to get what we really need. We complicate our lives and distract ourselves with things we don’t need or want. We live in a community of people yet we live like hermits. We have families who love us but we live like we’re alone. We think we can trade good conduct for God’s grace, but we can’t and when we try to, it makes us look like orphans. We all want our faith to look like it’s working, but we overlook the beauty and
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