Good morning to everyone. Grace and Peace be with you.
Couch potato. Yes, couch potato. That was my sole existence yesterday: couch potato. It was wonderful. The one problem with being a couch potato all day is that I had done nothing to wear my body out and make it want to go to bed. I had rested all day, so my body could very well have just gone straight to work and started at 10 last night.
Fortunately, for me, that did not happen. I did not start my very busy day last night. I am starting it right now, at 530, energizing my body with some go juice (coffee) and an open/rested mind ready to take on the world.
Now, it is a might colder outside than my liking…like 3 degrees, but hey, it is January in Indiana. I cannot complain about it actually fitting the season. I don’t have to like it, but I chose to live here, so I must deal with it. Today was already going to start with a complication, and yesterday I was informed of another complication. But hey, it is not like I have not been here before. Days like this are like a challenging game of Tetris. Manipulatively placing the pieces carefully to attain a cleared row where the row should not have cleared. At the end of the day, it is a beautifully messy success, but a success no less.
I will miss this part of my life once I retire, but I do foresee my own games of Jenga and Tetris evolving. My presumption for right now in these games is that they are practice rounds for what is to come. Since I have had lots of practice, I am going to believe that the rounds to come will be a level harder. As it should be, in my opinion.
No video game starts you off at the end to beat the boss. You must start in the easy rounds and fight off the little guys first. Each puzzle game starts you with easy puzzles, increasing the level of difficulty with each round. No one would send their child to Harvard without first sending them to Kindergarten. We have to have a solid foundation for the task that we are given in order to succeed in the task we were made for.
Perhaps you are in an entry-level phase, maybe you are in a secondary or tertiary level … but whatever level you are in, you are building skills that you will need for the larger task at hand. Embrace the challenge at whatever level you are in, take in all that it has to offer, and learn to apply what you have learned. God does not call the equipped … He equips the called.
The dances that I dance, I could not have done twenty years ago, though my dancing lessons started thirty years ago, but I was not at a level of experience until ten years ago. This has been a building process over the course of three decades. Sitting here this morning, reflecting a bit, I can now see the what and the how and … to some degree … the why.
As you go about your Tuesday, I encourage you to watch as the puzzle pieces of your calling fall where they are meant to. The way you approach difficulties has changed. The presence of His love and peace is becoming more prevalent in your sight. Each day is a new beginning. Each day is a new game. Yet each day is a continuation of God’s plan for you. Embrace the journey.
Be blessed.
**By wisdom a house is built, and through understanding it is established; through knowledge its rooms are filled with rare and beautiful treasures. – Proverbs 24:3-4
Couch potato. Yes, couch potato. That was my sole existence yesterday: couch potato. It was wonderful. The one problem with being a couch potato all day is that I had done nothing to wear my body out and make it want to go to bed. I had rested all day, so my body could very well have just gone straight to work and started at 10 last night.
Fortunately, for me, that did not happen. I did not start my very busy day last night. I am starting it right now, at 530, energizing my body with some go juice (coffee) and an open/rested mind ready to take on the world.
Now, it is a might colder outside than my liking…like 3 degrees, but hey, it is January in Indiana. I cannot complain about it actually fitting the season. I don’t have to like it, but I chose to live here, so I must deal with it. Today was already going to start with a complication, and yesterday I was informed of another complication. But hey, it is not like I have not been here before. Days like this are like a challenging game of Tetris. Manipulatively placing the pieces carefully to attain a cleared row where the row should not have cleared. At the end of the day, it is a beautifully messy success, but a success no less.
I will miss this part of my life once I retire, but I do foresee my own games of Jenga and Tetris evolving. My presumption for right now in these games is that they are practice rounds for what is to come. Since I have had lots of practice, I am going to believe that the rounds to come will be a level harder. As it should be, in my opinion.
No video game starts you off at the end to beat the boss. You must start in the easy rounds and fight off the little guys first. Each puzzle game starts you with easy puzzles, increasing the level of difficulty with each round. No one would send their child to Harvard without first sending them to Kindergarten. We have to have a solid foundation for the task that we are given in order to succeed in the task we were made for.
Perhaps you are in an entry-level phase, maybe you are in a secondary or tertiary level … but whatever level you are in, you are building skills that you will need for the larger task at hand. Embrace the challenge at whatever level you are in, take in all that it has to offer, and learn to apply what you have learned. God does not call the equipped … He equips the called.
The dances that I dance, I could not have done twenty years ago, though my dancing lessons started thirty years ago, but I was not at a level of experience until ten years ago. This has been a building process over the course of three decades. Sitting here this morning, reflecting a bit, I can now see the what and the how and … to some degree … the why.
As you go about your Tuesday, I encourage you to watch as the puzzle pieces of your calling fall where they are meant to. The way you approach difficulties has changed. The presence of His love and peace is becoming more prevalent in your sight. Each day is a new beginning. Each day is a new game. Yet each day is a continuation of God’s plan for you. Embrace the journey.
Be blessed.
**By wisdom a house is built, and through understanding it is established; through knowledge its rooms are filled with rare and beautiful treasures. – Proverbs 24:3-4
Good morning to everyone. Grace and Peace be with you.
Couch potato. Yes, couch potato. That was my sole existence yesterday: couch potato. It was wonderful. The one problem with being a couch potato all day is that I had done nothing to wear my body out and make it want to go to bed. I had rested all day, so my body could very well have just gone straight to work and started at 10 last night.
Fortunately, for me, that did not happen. I did not start my very busy day last night. I am starting it right now, at 530, energizing my body with some go juice (coffee) and an open/rested mind ready to take on the world.
Now, it is a might colder outside than my liking…like 3 degrees, but hey, it is January in Indiana. I cannot complain about it actually fitting the season. I don’t have to like it, but I chose to live here, so I must deal with it. Today was already going to start with a complication, and yesterday I was informed of another complication. But hey, it is not like I have not been here before. Days like this are like a challenging game of Tetris. Manipulatively placing the pieces carefully to attain a cleared row where the row should not have cleared. At the end of the day, it is a beautifully messy success, but a success no less.
I will miss this part of my life once I retire, but I do foresee my own games of Jenga and Tetris evolving. My presumption for right now in these games is that they are practice rounds for what is to come. Since I have had lots of practice, I am going to believe that the rounds to come will be a level harder. As it should be, in my opinion.
No video game starts you off at the end to beat the boss. You must start in the easy rounds and fight off the little guys first. Each puzzle game starts you with easy puzzles, increasing the level of difficulty with each round. No one would send their child to Harvard without first sending them to Kindergarten. We have to have a solid foundation for the task that we are given in order to succeed in the task we were made for.
Perhaps you are in an entry-level phase, maybe you are in a secondary or tertiary level … but whatever level you are in, you are building skills that you will need for the larger task at hand. Embrace the challenge at whatever level you are in, take in all that it has to offer, and learn to apply what you have learned. God does not call the equipped … He equips the called.
The dances that I dance, I could not have done twenty years ago, though my dancing lessons started thirty years ago, but I was not at a level of experience until ten years ago. This has been a building process over the course of three decades. Sitting here this morning, reflecting a bit, I can now see the what and the how and … to some degree … the why.
As you go about your Tuesday, I encourage you to watch as the puzzle pieces of your calling fall where they are meant to. The way you approach difficulties has changed. The presence of His love and peace is becoming more prevalent in your sight. Each day is a new beginning. Each day is a new game. Yet each day is a continuation of God’s plan for you. Embrace the journey.
Be blessed.
**By wisdom a house is built, and through understanding it is established; through knowledge its rooms are filled with rare and beautiful treasures. – Proverbs 24:3-4
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