Good Habits are hard to keep
Weeks like this one are proof that I need an agenda in order to write. I usually make a list of what I want to blog about at the beginning of the week and then check off one per day (of course, I deviate when I feel passionately about something that's happened in my life or in the news). This week, however, crept up on me and before I had a chance to get organized, it's already THURSDAY and I still have no outline. I still haven't decided what I want to do with it.
This is an example of what happens when I let life happen to me instead of deciding to take action. There's a Proverb that equates this to death: "Without vision, the people perish (29:18)."
Those are pretty strong words, but I sincerely believe them. Although it may not be a literal death, I think that spiritual death, relational death, emotional death, and intellectual death are clear consequences to apathy.
For me, I need a plan. If I don't have a plan, I just end up doing nothing. I may go through the motions of writing or reading or study or visiting for a little while (For instance, I've continued to blog all week even though I didn't have anything in particular to blog about.) If I'm in a routine I can continue on pure momentum for a time. But without intention, my efforts will become less vivid, less interesting, less important to me. Good habits only last if we maintain them. They only last if we make them important and intentional.
This is an example of what happens when I let life happen to me instead of deciding to take action. There's a Proverb that equates this to death: "Without vision, the people perish (29:18)."
Those are pretty strong words, but I sincerely believe them. Although it may not be a literal death, I think that spiritual death, relational death, emotional death, and intellectual death are clear consequences to apathy.
For me, I need a plan. If I don't have a plan, I just end up doing nothing. I may go through the motions of writing or reading or study or visiting for a little while (For instance, I've continued to blog all week even though I didn't have anything in particular to blog about.) If I'm in a routine I can continue on pure momentum for a time. But without intention, my efforts will become less vivid, less interesting, less important to me. Good habits only last if we maintain them. They only last if we make them important and intentional.