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Where are you when you read the Catch? Do you have a routine? Do you read it with someone? We’ve heard of it being shared over the phone.

I just found out my son and his girlfriend have a routine when they’re not working. They meet at a local mall where she gets two cups of coffee at Starbucks while he gets two juice drinks at Jamba Juice, and then they find a table and enjoy their drinks while they read the Catch together.

Routines can sometimes be ruts, but they can also be touchstones to wrap your life around. The scriptures say that Jesus often stole away to a private place to pray.

“Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed. Simon and his companions went to look for him, and when they found him, they exclaimed: ‘Everyone is looking for you!’

“Jesus replied, ‘Let us go somewhere else…'” (Mark 1:35-38)

Jesus was obviously tapping into another source of direction other than popular demand. Had he not had his prayer routine, he might not have realized that other direction.