“Strenght”

H,

On mondays we have to find strength from somewhere. The week looms heavy and all the inspirational quotes and messages we receive do not speak to the individual challenges and doubts we scrap with during the week. After all that mountain talk, there is still the flatland to work on and work out. There is never enough inspiration for the hours and the hours.

I am learning to look up more now. I should look up all the time but this is a lifelong habit and i am just forming it slowly over close to four decades of being. It is not an easy skill. This present iteration of life keeps demanding immediacy, keeps asking for all the answers today and keeps telling us we need to show our handiwork as quickly as we can. There is a constant push to be more current in our doing than in our being.

Yet, we are not here for our doing but for our being. God gives strength for us to be a certain sort of character and not just to do things we think are important.’Being’ over ‘doing’ is not about inertia. In truth, we only get the strength to do the right thing from our position of grace in being the right person in God.