Downtown Transit Center, Doors Open Left

Seen on the Monday morning train: lady with a shirt saying, "Property of the Official Oklahoma cow tipping association."

Yesterday's message at church has been rolling around in my brain. The gist is this: Spiritual Disciplines mean nothing if the aren't causing you to love God and other people. Like most people, I tend to measure my spiritual condition based on my "spiritual activity." It gives me a dipstick reading of holiness that shows where I stand with other people. It makes me feel better about myself (at least I am reading my Bible, unlike so and so) or worse about myself (he prays 3 hours every day, what are you doing wrong, schmuck?)

The problem with that kind of thinking is that it has nothing to do with whether or not I am loving God and other people more.