purposeFriday, August 28
Take and Read
Scripture
"Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy. Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the flesh."
— Romans 13:13-14
What it means
Augustine was thirty one, successful, and stuck. He had wanted to change for years and could not. Sitting in a garden in Milan he heard a child's voice chanting take and read, picked up Paul's letter and read exactly these lines. He wrote later that he did not need to read further. Within a year he had left his career in public speaking.