It’s not that you deliberately set out to mess it up.
After all it is a wonderful opportunity. In those initial stages there was great excitement and a genuine eagerness to make the most of the opportunity.
Then things happen. As things happen they challenge the degree of commitment to the opportunity. Things don’t just happen, they escalate. They don’t just escalate, they appear overwhelming. Under those circumstances you can rationalise how it’s probably for the best to ease off the degree of commitment to the opportunity. Maybe it would be better to just ease off the devotion, so you can deal with all of these things happening and escalating.
Over time that wonderful opportunity no longer received the appreciation it required and it suffered from the neglect and the escalating things did not get resolved to leave anything any better.
This is why there’s something to be said for taking things seriously. Not taking things sombrely all the time. Taking things with the matter of resolve necessary to truly utilise this wonderful opportunity – remembering that it is an opportunity full of wonder.
For His Name’s Sake
Shalom
C. L. J. Dryden
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