Day One // February 26 // The Roots of Apathy “Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand.” – Bodie Thoene –
Rotten. It’s not a pretty word. It’s not an inviting word, and it’s certainly not a word that we’d want to describe us. But underneath all the gilding and frill with which we protect ourselves, there are seasons in all our lives when we’re confronted with the hollowness of a spiritual void, the deadening malaise of a soul once alive. Doubt. Anxiety. Fear. Guilt. Shame. It takes on many names – each of them a sworn enemy of grace. Each seed robbing the fertile soil of our lives of its life-giving succor. Surrounded by these endless echoes of pain and brokenness, it’s easy for us to move to a place of helplessness and hopelessness. It’s easy for us to resign ourselves to a life trapped by un-feeling and un-caring
