The hardest part of Christianity? Definitely the waiting. But the waiting is the key to it all. We wait for the Father to provide what we are incapable of providing ourselves.

Is Jesus just harping on money again? Is he just giving us more rules? Or is he leading us to a fuller life? Rescuing us from a life that cannot promise us anything that lasts?

In our desire for the One that will truly satisfy, Augustine emphasizes exercise. There is a need for persistence and consistency in prayer. It is through prayer that this desire is exercised.

There are so many things that demand our time and attention each and every day. And often we are left in the daze of their incessant demand, in an anxious concern about what the next day will bring. And this leads to forgetting the one thing necessary, the one thing our life, our heart needs.