(during a prayer with music)

“I hate that they’re manipulating me.
I hate how they’re using music to make me feel something about the words.”

“No you don’t. You hate that they’re doing it badly.
You notice the incongruity because you don’t feel the same about the words,
or not as much, as you do about the music.”

“—which means they have to use the music to back up the cruddy words!”

(And these internal dialogues distract me from the words in the first place...)

All I can offer you for following me is following me itself

Kind of a cool dream, walking with Jesus. I only remember a couple quotes.

Jesus: Will you follow me?
Me: I want to, but it would mean leaving behind the people I love?
Jesus: Some of them are coming; indeed, some are already further along, and the only way to reach them is to follow me.

Jesus: All I can offer you for following me is following me itself.