Searching for the Antidote to Zombie Discipleship

Alicia and I had a good talk about being more engaged at home. I have been going through the motions at home and it's caused some problems lately. Alicia has asked me how I can be so engaged at work and then come home and go into maintenance mode - tidying up the house and helping get things done but not really engaging to help my kids grow and become or lift and encourage my wife.

As we talked this over today, it was clear that we both get caught in similar traps - zombie discipleship. We're doing good things but we're not really engaged in it. We may go to Church, we may try to help people, we try to raise our kids well but sometimes - perhaps a lot of the times - we're going through the motions without the true fuel that it takes to really lift souls, build unity and prepare for eternity.

So how do we snap out of it? Something has to motivate our caring and love. Something has to clear our vision to enable us to have eternal perspective. Something has to give us principles that will help us be more unified. We left the conversation today looking for this and are hopeful that Heavenly Father will help us find it as we search and pray for it.