"Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, just as we told you" (
1 Thessalonians 4:11)
"Quiet" - hesuchasa: to live in tranquility; not over-busy nor busybodies; not moving to and fro, but staying put and tending to/minding your business.
So wrote Paul to the whole church. He was compelled by the Spirit to move and preach. He was graced and gifted and anointed to do it. But he knew well that the body needs a theology of time, of quietness to take root and provide shelter for many birds.
Heroism is not firstly in foreign trenches or full passports. My heroes now are the quiet majority, being willing to be salt that remains on the plate of food for the savor to penetrate and delight their neighbors, their nearest.
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