This letter addresses a young man's anxiety about life. A recent Christian, he is wondering about the difference between the promise of life in the Spirit and the apparent mundanity of the everyday. First, the first symptom of the spiritual flu involves a sense of boredom. You will recall that the Ephesians in our Revelation studies had a bad bout with this. So much so that they had lost their first love, just as you have lately been lacking your regular enthusiasm. The Desert Fathers and Mothers of the early church, those who roamed around deserts