Week 9: Part Two, Chapter 8 — Practice Four: Silence and Solitude

1.Comer describes silence and solitude as one combined practice — you cannot really have one without the other. How does that pair differ from simply being alone, or from introverted recovery time? What is the specifically spiritual dimension of it?

2.He quotes multiple studies showing that people would rather give themselves electric shocks than sit alone with their thoughts for fifteen minutes. Does that statistic surprise you? What does it reveal about our relationship to our own interior life?

3.Comer walks through the frequency with which the Gospels show Jesus withdrawing to lonely places to pray — often before and after major events. What does it mean that Jesus, the Son of God, apparently needed this practice? What does that imply for us?