Lent 15

I did my least favorite job at the church today...I put the bulletin together. After stuffing 300 or so bulletins with an insert, my shoulders actually hurt a little from the repetitive motion. The one good thing about it, after about the 50th one, it gets pretty easy--other than the soreness, of course--because you get into a rhythm. And once you get into the rhythm, you can feel the task, and when you can feel the task, you can do it without even thinking about it or looking.

When I moved to Atlanta, I hated it at first because the rhythm was so different than the rhythm of Charleston. I felt like I was working against the city. And the same was true when I moved here to Greenwood. It took me a while to get the rhythm.

God's love and God's will is kind of like a rhythm. When we are out of rhythm, everything we do feels like an effort. It feels like your rubbing up against something and can't quite get comfortable. But if we seek God's will, seek to get in sync, and try our very best to practice doing the things God wants us to do, we'll create habits. And those habits will become second nature, and eventually, we'll get into God's good rhythm.