Transformation and healing always begin in a place of desire. There needs to be some deep inner willingness to take a risk on Jesus and begin again and again.
We can get so busy doing urgent things and so preoccupied with what comes next that we don’t experience now. Afraid of being late, we rush from the past to the future. The present moment becomes a crack between what we did and what we have yet to do. It is virtually lost to us. We don’t get to our futures any faster if we hurry. And we certainly don’t become better people in haste. More likely than not, the faster we go the less we become.
In the unfixables of our lives we are invited to keep company with Jesus and take a risk that God’s intentions toward us are good.
When we are rested, we notice desires as well as lies buried in our souls.
The spiritual journey is a marathon of seasons. Sometimes you can hold your own. Sometimes your side aches, you’re hot and you can’t get your breath. Spiritual disciplines are intentional ways to keep moving through the seasons. They aren’t magical means to an effortless race. The disciplines simply provide us with exercises that keep us open to God and aware of the limits of our endurance.