“A few days ago, a friend said she thinks that CO2s (churches of two) are opposed. I agree–both from outside and inside ourselves.

We want–all too often, expect, really–for intimacy with God to come to us hassle free, with little effort on our part. Pretty much the way we’d like the rest of our life to go–convenient.

So rather than a real, daily conversation with the present God, we’ll opt for the occasional bit of predigested, mass dispensed universal truth.

This can work like a religious place-holder, keeping us unaware that we are spiritually asleep–that, far from engaging our own heart with the heart of God and others, we are sleep-walking through life.

I love that many of us are finding in CO2s a bracing call to wake up–again, today