Comments on: private practice http://writeaboutnowjt.wordpress.com/2009/08/24/private-practice/ Sat, 15 Oct 2011 20:21:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Robin Stanley http://writeaboutnowjt.wordpress.com/2009/08/24/private-practice/#comment-900 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:04:08 +0000 http://writeaboutnow.christianstandard.com/?p=1889#comment-900 I appreciate your openness, as always, Jen. I’m reading The Good and Beautiful God (experiencing it, more like!). In it, James Bryan Smith says that spiritual growth is a gradual process, like making pickles. That’s a great image for me, as I “helped” my mom make pick cukes and make pickles when I was little. I can say with certainty that I don’t often have the patience to be a pickle.

In the same chapter, James refers to Malcolm Gladwell from Outliers as he describes his research of “exceptional people” who appear to have been born with exceptional talent. He cites that studies reveal that it takes ten thousand hours of practice to achieve “expert” status at anything. I think I’d rather be a pickle!

Really, though, this book is a great look at the process that is spiritual transformation. It takes time.

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