Spiritual Transformation Is All About Giving Up Control

Spiritual transformation is always about finding ways to give up control. It's about practising, actually practising, doing something that we're not very good at doing. So solitude and silence gives us a way to practice giving up control. When you sit for ten minutes with your hands open on your lap, not reading your bible, not journaling, not praying with words, not doing anything, you are practising giving up control - it changes you. And so the only reason we would do something that's so challenging and counter intuitive is because our longing is deeper.