I never want to do anything. I don’t want to cook dinner tonight. I don’t want to brush my teeth before bed, and I never want to take a shower in the morning. I don’t want to ride my bike to work when I can hop in my car instead. I don’t want to go to any event where I’ll have to make small talk. I don’t want to give the church money that I could spend on sparkly, pretty things. I don’t want to have a tough conversation with someone I love. I don’t even want to write this post.
Doing stuff is hard. It takes effort and self-control, and we all know that doing just about anything opens up the possibility of failure.I could go on forever, listing the things I don’t feel like doing. That could be this entire post, if not for the stunning moments in my life when I have pushed past the voice in my head that screams, “I don’t wanna!” Those moments have inevitably been the most memorable and meaningful times in my life. They are the times when I have felt God’s blessing most fully, and have begun to understand this idea that ... Read More »
