is that the wind will not take us very far if our sail is down; that is, if our human spirit is not engaged. Just as the writers of Scripture needed the Holy Spirit to drive them along in writing the Bible, so every Christian needs the same divine wind to drive them along in living the Christian life. The spiritual formation practices that we engage in are like putting up the sail. They are ways of getting our human spirit engaged with the Spirit of God. Again, it will do no good to raise the sails