She always wears the same outfit... 4:59. I wonder what this could mean? Does it mean anything to you? For many, it's one minute before the dreadful workday is over! For others, it's right in the middle of Happy Hour! For the strange few, like myself, it's twelve hours in the other direction.
Commitment. The word just doesn't roll easily off our tongues. It's a word that conjures up hundreds of emotions... hope, pain, heartache, promise... just to name a few. Yet, it's the very foundation that directs our compass and sets the sails in motion.Contrary to popular opinion, I am a pretty committed dude. If we asked some old flames to chime in about this subject matter... we might get some different opinions. You know what? We're not asking! Truth is... I have a new found awareness for my ability to commit. I'm a pretty strong willed individual and once I've set my sights on a particular goal, watch out!
Over the last few years, I've daily taken on the challenge of greeting the sun as he awakens. I think he appreciates my commitment. We've shared some wonderful times together and it feels as though we've found a new level of respect for one another. There are days when I wait for him. He is absent. There are days when he looks for me. I'm nowhere to be found.Through it all, we're committed. We understand that commitment isn't about duty, victory, or strategy. It's about a shared value... a way of life. It's about extending great grace to one another and cherishing the moments when we're together. It's about celebration!
So, let's celebrate our commitments! Let's look through different lenses and find a new approach to the people and places we're committed too. Maybe in the process, we'll find ourselves at the same party... committed to diving deep and listening well!
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Well....you know I've got some thoughts. i personally struggle and am struggling right now, not with committing, but with others lack of commitment and the thing I've committed to's under-needing me. For instance, I feel like if I left my job here, they would replace me and life would go on without much changing. So, that makes me feel under-used and under-needed. But, I feel a lot of that towards the Lord with the page filled with question marks. Why God? When God? How long, oh Lord? I read the accounts in the Word where the Father lets those He loves struggle and suffer. I read the Word where it says that it is good to suffer...and I agree. But being at peace with being average simply doesn't cut it for me...doesn't fit....doesn't feel right. And the "spiritual" answers of "you've got to be content" seems off too. So....what to do? I value being committed...I really, really do....not only to what He puts on our plates, but also what He puts in our hearts. That's not really an answer to any of my own questions. But I did find 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 yesterday. "Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal." And even though it is occasionally difficult for me to commit to something invisible, most days it's easier than trying to make sense of what I can actually see.
Thanks BK... Thanks for joining the conversation! I appreciate your candor. I'm glad we had the chance to process this out together. I'm sure we'll need another conversation tomorrow!
Until then...
ok. I think I'm back in the game!
Amy B, where are you? We need you!
Please, get back in the game quickly!
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