This is ridiculous. This that I’m holding in my hand here. It’s such a crazy thing how you can work so long on something and you’re still taken aback when the intended result appears. This right here has taken 4 years of constant tending and trouble. And I’m still so fumblingly new at it.
I want to talk to you this morning about not letting this frenetic culture take the fruit of painstaking work from you. Social media has made us instant and editor-less publishers. Trains us to immediately say whatever we’re thinking or post whatever we’re seeing. And that’s not all bad. I love some spontaneity. I’m a sucker for social media because I’m a very social creature.
I’m just saying there are some works God wants to do in us then through us that are meant to outlast us. Works that require many weeks and months and maybe years. Works that take pushing through the loss of focus and interest that inevitably come in the middle of a project. This culture is training us to be starters of 1000 things and finishers of none. Reject it. Fight for your focus. This ongoing fight is one of the most challenging parts of my work.
But this right here. This picture right here. That mentee who’s beginning to get it. That kid you thought would be the death of you showing some character. That painting. That class. That degree. That start up. That material in somebody’s hand who writes and says it meant something to her. To him. The thought, the trouble and the tears that went into it. The self-doubt. The editing. Oh Lord, the editing. The critique. The wounded pride. The restarts. And the just plain weariness that hard work brings. It’s worth it. Because in all the project’s getting old and on your nerves, God is doing something new and on his mind.
Do the work. Pay the price. Finish what you started.
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The utter joy at the fact that @BethMooreLPM’s book is available on Audible in my region!!! I’ll get the paper version but I can start now!! Happy dance 💃🏽
We traveled on to Genadendal for a Heritage Day I will never forget. Back to the town where the first Moravian missionaries would arrive and flee from persecution for baptizing an indigenous woman! The history too rich to tweet! #sacligrace@SACLI
Our walk brought us to Groote Kerk, where we received a thoughtful welcome and I was struck by the word @SACLI’s Moss shared reminding us of how incalculable the loss… It stayed with me #sacligrace#apilgrim