For the past couple days, I've been spending a fair portion of the day struggling to write blog posts, and tying myself in knots because I can't come up with any passage to share. For the time being, I'm going to take a half-a-step back. If I find a passage that inspires me, or if there's an idea to explore, I'll write. If there's not, I won't. I expect I'll be writing at least once per week, but for now, I'm going to stop requiring myself to come up with something and beating myself up because I'm not. If you have ideas of passages you'd like me to look at - that would be welcome.
Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast. If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,” even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you. (Psalm 139:7-12) For years before GPSes existed, I told people I wanted something in my car that would tell me, “Turn left in half a mile…turn left in a quarter mile…turn left in 500 feet… turn left in 100 feet…turn left now …You missed the turn, Dummy!” The problem isn’t necessarily that I get lost so much as I’m afraid I’ll get lost. I don’t want to have to spend my whole trip stressing over the next turn. I have the same problem with my spiritual journey.
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