A decade of spiritual routines and rituals never made me better. It just made me more exhausted. Eventually I let go and just started accepting the love of God, and that’s when I changed. Not into a better rule follower. But better at what really matters: more patient, more free, more present, more compassionate. Turns out the thing I was trying to achieve through discipline was available through love the whole time. And it’ll do the same for you.