Why do we practice spiritual disciplines? Sit in meditation? Strain our mind in study? Try to focus on prayer? Go out of our comfort zone to practice bits of service to others?
Is it so that we can tell people at the next social gathering (or on our social media page) how good and dedicated we are?
Would that be our ego talking?
Ego gets in the way. Move it out of the way, and we can…
Sit with calm mind in meditation for many minutes or even hours;
Engage our curiosity to discover new meanings in our study;
Converse with God in a give-and-take conversation, talking and listening, called prayer;
Just help someone without thinking why—even a random act of kindness.
The comedian Flip Wilson had one of his characters often say, “Get behind me, Satan.” Adopt that phrase, “Get behind me Ego. Just let me be me, a seeker and a servant.”
Faith Venture 
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