After my book, Celebration of Discipline, was published (Please, understand I do not know how God can use squiggles on a paper to do the transforming heart work of the Holy Spirit in people. That is an utter mystery to me.) Anyway, after Celebration of Discipline was published people were so gracious and so encouraging and they would invite me to come and share with them about the Christian spiritual disciplines. And so I did. What an honor and privilege that was. It gave me the opportunity to be among Christians of many denominations, of various geographic areas and racial and ethnic backgrounds. Wonderful people. Good people. Sincere people. And I saw many excellent things everywhere I went. But during those years of travel I also saw three huge areas of spiritual deficiency.