A Little Sue Monk Kidd For Ya! (She's brilliant by the way)

"Unfortunately there has been little emphasis on this summons within Christian circles. When it comes, we don't understand that we're being thrust into personal transformation, into the task of birthing an "I" that is not yet, we write it off as just another predicament or plight- perhaps the result of burnout or our dissatisfaction with life. I believe, however, that in such a summons we're actually being presented with a spiritual developmental task. We're being asked to unfold a deeper self- what we might call the life of Christ within us. To embark on this task involves a deep and profound movement of the soul that takes us from an identification with the collective 'they' to a discovery of the individual "I", and finally, as we shall eventually see, to an embracing of the compassionate "we". This task is truly one of the most precarious and mysterious pathways traveled in the spiritual life, for how it's navigated readically affects one's alignment with oneself, with God, and with the world."