There are ways to make progress in vocations.
It’s not just to know what that vocation is, it is to also know some of the basic routines to implement that will allow you to go from good to excellent. The sportsman trains and practices their basics. The chef learns and practices their basics. The writer puts words together and practices their basics.
Here are basics it’s worthwhile me remembering:
Pray – Essential. It is absolutely essential. Committing to the communication made available from the Father through the Son by the Spirit is the air I breathe. I have the chance to open my mouth to reflect the state of my heart. Not only that, thoguh, I have the chance to open my ears to seek the mind of Christ for the given situation and beyond. Exercising that individually and collectively is the cornerstone of everything else that makes sense in life because it reminds me that I live ever in need of God.
Study – There is a great love of words. There is a great desire to work thorugh constructs and the concepts on which they’re built on. I am still intrigued to see why things are the way they are, not wanting to take things for granted or assume. Experience and wisdom continues to highlight that ever be effective in excelling I need to study. Studying takes on different facets – it’s not just text on paper or on screen. It’s listening. It’s watching. It’s conversing. It’s asking questions. It’s investigations. It’s applying this to take steps to do and be better.
Write – Blogging really is a tremendous blessing to my life and it is a part of something that is the part of the deal with what I’m to be. It was and is easy to make copious notes behind the scenes. It’s great to have loads and loads of ideas put down somewhere with excitement on how it can be realised. Blogging is one of the ways in which it no longer remains an idea. It is one of the ways in which what has been studied in essence what has been taken in has a pathway to be expressed productively. That is the commitment.
Teach – There is studying, there is applying and there is improving. That’s good. It defintely helps if I am the first port of call to see all of that making a positive effect in my development. The point of carrying aCross Christ, however, is the desire to support people in developing themselves in the knowledge of Him. That’s a teaching thing. So it’s not just somethign by example, it’s also how that can be communicated in such a way to support others in that journey of building Christ-like character. That is the element of studying with the desire to teach as well as to live.
Dramas, crises, calamities, distractions take place in a bid to draw me away from those basic patterns. Sometimes they work, because there are other activities that look to come in to disrupt those basic patterns. I’m grateful, however, for the events that happen as a warning and a reminder to get back on track with those basics to ensure humility and focus on the purpose of the journey.
Those basics apply to me. What are your basics?
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For His Name’s Sake
Shalom
C. L. J. Dryden
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