Skip to main content

Life Hacks: Move

I woke up this morning thinking about life hacks to lose weight. I'm not fitting into my clothes, I was reminded, as I squeezed into my L size shirt and khaki pants that have become a little more form fitting. Last night, Jess and I talked a bit, after talking for some throughout the day, which is kind of unusual for us. I'm writing now for the first time since July 28, 2021, which is also unusual. 

Life hacks. Connection. Communication. Communion. 

Is there a relationship between these things? Am I on the right path? Steven Curtis Chapman would suggest so, I believe! This morning, as I sought the life-hackiest way to do a morning devotional and get back on track in the milliseconds I felt I had, I went to Our Daily Bread's website and got a download. The first step toward wellness is the recognition that things are not well, that you are going in the wrong direction. The second is to take a step toward the direction that you perceive you should go. 

My faith is this: I believe as I am going into familiar but uncharted territory that God in Jesus will help guide me in the turns and pivots. He's given me a good mind, one I believe is connected to Him (1 Cor 2:16). I recognize that many in the world have fooled themselves through an overinflated sense of self. That is not the territory where I want to walk, however, to walk a path of true faith and belief in Jesus, I have to be bold and assertive. Yet with humility (Heb 12:3, Mic 6:8). 

Prayer: Heavenly Father, daily I get opportunities to reconnect with You, but in the busyness of life, I allow for constant distraction. Help me to refocus on what's important, and to position You as my chief aim. I am not where I want to be, but where I want to be is not the chief goal. Help me orient around the things that You have given me to do. Help me fall in love all over again, with my wife, with the work that I do for others, and with You. 

In Jesus Name,

Amen

Isaiah 30:21 

New International Version

21 Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way; walk in it.”

 https://youtu.be/DpTjCLtoQ7c

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

A Dim Confidence

This morning CS Lewis conveyed to me in Mere Christianity many ideas I think I will have to go back and examine, but one key idea was the idea of why some people seem to get more of God than others. Lewis likened God's reality, His revealed self, to sunshine in a mirror (or something like that). If the mirror is mucky then it will not be very good at reflecting the radiance of the sun. In a similar way, if a man is mucky, if his heart is impure, his mind unclean, then he will not be able to absorb the light. The light will be distorted and hazy, obscured. I envy men who are able to jump out and take hold of God offers them. I envy men, if I'm being honest, who are able to jump out and take hold of much less than God. They have confidence, they know they will acquire what they are after. Where does it come from, this confidence? Is it real or imagined? In any case, I know that God would have us be confident, especially if our life is in Him. So, these are my prayers today...
Post a Comment
Read more

From Goals to Roles

It's been quite a while since I've sat down to write down goals and map out plans to get there. I used to do this thing all the time when I was out of work living in Brooklyn. I would write down all of these details about the things I wanted to do (Bookbinding, Screen Printing, Music, etc). This was the era of David Allen and get things done. Much of that has stayed with me. As I look back, I became something of a productivity automaton. Not very crazy, as I have read about others being, but in my own haphazard way, I was one, too. Over the past several years there has not been quite the same reflective time, or maybe I have not thought that I needed it. But with my wife consistently telling me that I put too high a premium on work, that I'm not there to meet hers and the families needs, and with me thinking about friendships (or the lack of them) here in Memphis, my continued overweightness, and a few other messy features about myself, I consider that it is time to do...
Post a Comment
Read more

Meditation as Rightly Concentrated Consideration | Contemplation as The Course of Right Action

Let us begin by saying that the basic difference between meditation and contemplation is that meditation is a human mode of prayer whereas contemplation is divinely infused prayer. This morning I consider, consideration. It's a term often used in the Bible, I believe in both the old and new testament. While you are going about your life, have you considered this... It's the entryway to the contemplative life. I use contemplation there, as a culminating thing, intentionally. Before I read a little bit, I might have considered using the word meditation instead, but that reveals my persuasion and error; also my inexperience. Meditation is man-initiated deep-thought. It's hope is to reach God. Contemplation, as exposed in the article below, is Spirit-breathed prayer inside of us, guiding us to right and holy actions. As I was searching consideration "vs" the other 2 terms, concentration came up. Presently, I see that as the course from consideration to meditation....
Post a Comment
Read more