I have a confession to make.
I never think about my motives before starting a spiritual discipline.
If I hear from God and am guided to begin something I trust that he will giv me every grace that I need to engage it. In this I find that I am much less self-centered than I was three years ago, and this reduction is due largely to the methodical practice of the disciplines.
So, is this a case of chicken and egg? No, absolutely not.
I started with all of my self-centeredness fully intact...because I had to start somewhere. What if I'd waited to start until I was no longer self-centered? I'd never have started the very disciplines that were the medium by which God gave me the very thing I was waiting for!
As in most things, the goal is progress, not perfection. The goal is relationship, not consummation. To quote the bible, we live by faith not by sight. To quote the liturgy, we trust in God's graces to keep our hearts and minds in true faith through Christ Jesus.
Amen.
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