Almost an entire year has lapsed since I last drafted a post. It seems like that happens for many of us. I don’t mean we stop blogging. Rather, we stop doing things we enjoy. I think many times it is just “life” that arrives and changes things. Our routine becomes something different than our routine. Things we want to do, things we plan to do, often do not happen because we run out of time.
I think in my case, it is not always that I run out of time, but that I just pursue other things. I don’t make what I want a priority. The sad thing is that this often stretches across various aspects of our lives. Careers, relationships, hobbies, and activities don’t result in what we expect. Sometimes this ends up being a good thing. (Let’s all recognize that your life has not suffered because of my lack of updates. [smile]) But a lot of times, I think I subconsciously wait until a new year, or even just a new season in life arrives to make changes in my life. After all, it is sometimes the new season that changed things in my life in the first place.
The danger with all of this is that often times we allow life to affect our relationship with God. Fortunately, the great thing, the promise that we have, is that we don’t have to wait for a new season or a new year. In fact, the best point in time to change something is in the middle of our year or current season. So while I am in the middle of waiting for my first child to be born, I am returning to some things I enjoy.
Hickman, I am going to need you to commit to this blog thing. I feel like I am riding with Jones and he’s gassing and breaking, gassing and breaking… You are an excellent writer and even better thinker. I need this to be a daily stop for me.