but this morning, there’s a calm i can’t explain
the rock candy’s melted, only diamonds now remain
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Today, I started a new "One-Year" series: The One Year Daily Grind. And while I know there will be days I skip and get off track, weeks that I put myself through withdrawal and ruts that will never seem to end (like the one I’m coming out of now), it’s time to put myself back in that daily grind so that I’m thriving and not just surviving. I would say more, but I just don’t think I could say it any better than Sarah Arther does on the welcome page:
"I’ve come to realize that the Christian faith isn’t always neat and tidy. Nor is it always cheerful and inspiring. It’s not easy to get up in the morning and fix my eyes on Jesus through prayer or devotional reading. The spiritual journey takes work. It’s a daily grind.
But it isn’t a grind in the same way that other daily rituals are… It isn’t a grind like taking medicine. Technically speaking, I can survive without the spiritual life, and of course millions of people do (though their souls are shrinking every day). In that sense, the spiritual life is more like my first cup of coffee for the day — another kind of daily "grind," if you will. I don’t need it to survive, but if I go without it, I’m muddled and grumpy and unproductive. Something in my soul needs that shot of spiritual caffeine every day…"
And for those of you who are familiar with my intimate and obsessive relationship with coffee (yes, we are that close! …like the space between these arrows: >< ) you get it. I’m getting out of that disconnected rut and back into a new daily grind.
