Thank you, Nancy Ortberg.  You said it so well.  Wish I could thank her personally.

http://www.christianitytoday.com/le/2013/summer/jesus-didnt-journal.html?utm_source=connection-html&utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_term=2589730&utm_content=202044759&utm_campaign=2013

Here are a few paragraphs just to get you interested!

"Really, I have nothing against introverted men. In fact I have been in love with one for more than thirty years. It's just that for the past two thousand years, it seems, someone gave them the pen, and they have done the largest part of writing about spiritual formation. And like all of us, they bring a specific perspective to the topic.

Two thousand years of introverts elevating contemplation, reflection, solitude, and journaling into the preeminent ways to know God. Now, please don't hear what I'm not saying. Every one of those practices is wonderful. There is a rich history of how people following God have engaged those practices to help them know and experience God in profound ways. I am one of those people. My guess is you are as well.

Those exercises do things for our soul that only they can do. But they are wholly inadequate to developing a rich interior soul that is woven to God."