We will fail at pretty much everything written in this book. Often. Not just daily but, at least in the beginning, hourly. That doesn’t make you a bad apprentice; it just makes you human.

How joyful, peaceful, and free do I want to be?

Limiting my intake of media (TV, film, YouTube) to a max of four hours a week. I lifted this from the Rule of Life from Andy Crouch

Work at its best is an expression of love.

In the late seventies, Foster wrote a book called Celebration of Discipline

“Don’t waste your life on triviality. Remember what matters. Life is fleeting and precious. Don’t squander it. Keep your death before your eyes. Hold eternity in your heart.”

“The number one problem you will face is time,” he said, because “most people are just too busy to live emotionally healthy and spiritually vibrant lives.”[69]

Hurry is, arguably, the number one challenge you will face should you decide to take following Jesus seriously. Like an enemy, it won’t just stand in your way; it will actively fight against you.

Dallas Willard famously called hurry “the great enemy of spiritual life in our day” and said, “You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your