Have you ever wondered if you can have it all?
If you’re a stay at home parent, this question of capacity might have crossed your mind a time or two? Can I do this and do that? Am I capable to be a spouse and a friend? Maybe you’ve not wondered if, but more of how. This means that you’ve already accepted that there is a possibility of having it all, and that now you’re finding a way to make it work. Instead of asking if (or why), you’re asking how can I manage to do it all effectively?
Asking how before why… it’s not an easy road to travel. Actually, it can be downright miserable.
Direction without Correction.
And, this is a hard pill to swallow, but in order to “have it all” there has to be a sort of lack of restraint mindset that has painted itself on the canvas of one’s thinking. A way of thinking that has somehow made the oil and water mix one of possibility.
A mindset that not only believes the impossible, but has also created a lifestyle around it. This way of thinking has allowed us to deem destiny instead of wait for it, create any thing instead of using intention to create the most important thing, and probably most detrimental… ignore correction in our direction.
Teachable AND Correctable
Knowing that we are heading in a direction has sometimes kept us dismissive of correction. We might put emphasis on being teachable… and while it’s a desired quality that will bring direction, being correctable is a trait much more rare to come across. It’s the difference between being knowledgeable and using wisdom. Between watching and playing the game. It’s the wisdom to apply what Paul says in 1 Corinthians 10:23: “Everything is permissible,” but not everything is beneficial.”
It’s a great hindrance to growth to know something and not do it… and still, there is an even greater hindrance.
The Double Mind
Hypocrisy or what it ultimately reveals… the double mind. That is knowing, not doing (likely doing the opposite) expecting the whole world to still do what we don’t…. repeat cycle.
The double mind has birthed hypocrisy as well as multiple other sins of presumption at various levels… including that of striving.
Rushing in and putting the how before the why. Leading us in our own strength. Insisting that we keep up with the Jones’, artificially of course. Putting ourselves in the pathway of every presumptuous act imaginable. After all, if we know about it, why shall we not pursue it, go after it… make it our aim until we attain it… even if only superficially.
A Better Way…
Strive not. It is just better not to strive. To strive is to struggle. We’ve heard the old saying: “the struggle is real”. In reality, the struggle is an indication of something very fake. If we are struggling we are fighting unnecessarily.
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