Welcome to episode 26! Patience, perseverance, steadfastness, joy, and fasting will help guide us as we navigate the coming days, weeks, and months.
Who knows when this will end? It’s out of our control. So many variables, so much change. The days blur together; they seem to crawl while the weeks fly by. We try to maintain focus, but a lot is happening outside the frame. One thing we can control: our response. Our attitude dictates our actions. Keep on the sunny side.
It’s easier to have patience and perseverance when you are in control of the situation. If you’re running to get in shape, you can push through the tiredness and pain and shortness of breath. Because you know when you will be done. You know you only have so much longer. There’s an end in sight. You can control where you are running, and what time, you don’t have to run in the sun, you can run in the shade. But right now we don’t have a lot of options, we’re not in complete control, and I think that is exposing how little we were in control before. It shows us how fragile the things we placed our trust in before are.
Patience, perseverance, steadfastness, joy, and fasting will help guide us as we navigate the coming days, weeks, and months. As we continue to practice the fruit of the spirit and spiritual disciplines, they will prepare us to respond instead of react. We can control our actions by controlling our attitude. If the root is holy, then so are the branches. Let us use this time to tend to our garden, nourishing the root, pruning where necessary, trimming down some other plants to make sure it’s getting enough sun and watering every day. For all the things we can’t control, there seems to be a lot of things we can. Our response, our attitude, our actions, our mindset, our thoughts, emotions, our speech.
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