Spiritual Discipline

For most of my life, I have sought to be an effective activist, if not leader, but the things that have stood in my way are anger, impatience, inability to compromise and contempt for the political and intellectual opposition. The solution to my issues is to inject more God in my life, otherwise I’ll never be able to calm down and act with more humility

This country, and this planet for that matter, are being torn apart by inflexibility and arrogance, driven by a cynicism that if you give an ideological inch, you’ll be made to look foolish.

But the true fool is the man or woman who believes that banging one’s head or other people’s heads against a wall is going to make a bit of difference in changing or simply preserving the world.

So, I’m turning once and for all-- and completely-- to Judeo-Christian spiritual discipline, in the hope that I can rid myself of anger, inflexibility and impatience and finally serve the interests of both myself and humanity.

Being spiritual doesn’t come easy to me: I was raised a secular American and few secular people and almost no Americans like to suffer fools gladly, but you have to suffer fools gladly if you want to reach the maximum number of people.

Thus, here I go again, calling on the Lord to heal my spirit, so that I can stop going in circles emotionally and politically. Wish me luck!

Craig R. Bayer