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Tuesday, April 17, 2007
I am in a pickle - i can’t decide what Spiritual Season i am going through.
When i say “Spiritual Season,” I am referring to the idea of spirituality in terms of harvesting cycles.
1. Preparation
2. Sowing
3. Waiting
4. Harvesting
I am trying to figure out if i am simply in the “Waiting” season or am I wasting time not taking action? I am in an uncomfortable place where i don’t know if i’m being lazy or just patiently waiting. Both are torturous in one respect or another. Let me explain.
I have always thought that in order to follow the will of God in one’s life, one has to take action. Guidence comes along the way. A good analogy is that of a rock - a rock that is just sitting there is very hard to give direction, while a rock that is already rolling somewhere is much easier to nudge this way and that and to guide in a certain direction. So am i an unmovable rock right now?
Conversely, it could be that i am merely in the “waiting” season where i must learn patience. It’s like Joseph when he was in Egypt in prison after being falsely accused of raping Potiphar’s wife. He hung around, probably in chains for YEARS. Well, he did get to be in charge of the other prisoners, so i suppose that is one perk. But really, that was not fun at all and probably didn’t *feel* like he was doing God’s work at the time. Is that where I am now? Am i just waiting? Faithfully grinding away at a task that seems to have no real significance?
All i can think is that i need to spring into action.
ACTION. That’s the word of the year.