“Doing My Stretches”
A few years ago, I had sciatica for about a year and a half. My chiropractor helped. So did some physical therapy.
However, the thing that I think helped the most was doing simple stretches. Of course, doing them regularly proved to be remarkable difficult.
I am discovering, over and over, that I need to be stretched, not just physically, but in every area of my life: emotionally, mentally, relationally, musically.
Take musical stretching, for example. I like to listen to online music at AccRadio.com. I usually listen to instrumental jazz or old rock. I hit the skip button whenever a song comes on that I don’t like.
However, today I scrolled to the very bottom of the screen, and there was “AccuClassical.” So, I thought, why not?!
But, I didn’t like the second song in, and was about to hit the skip button. I didn’t. Why? Because I felt a check in my spirit about doing so. I thought to myself, “That is one of the things that is wrong with our country right now. If there is anything we don’t like, we simply hit the skip button.” I don’t like conservatives? Hit the skip button! I don’t like liberals? Hit the skip button! I don’t like feminists? Hit the skip button! I don’t like people who take a male-dominated approach to work, politics, the church, etc.? Hit the skip button!
But how can I ever learn anything new, if I am forever hitting the skip button? How will I grow, If I’m always and only thinking, doing, and listening to things I already know, already have done, already have heard?
So, to avoid spiritual sciatica, I’ve decided to quit hitting the skip button so much. I will choose to be an author, rather than an editor. I will choose to value what comes next, rather than what I like.
Of late, I have been stuck in my scriptural reading. That is because I am in the early chapters of 1 Chronicles, which is almost entirely a list of names. I don’t like long lists of names. However, I think I’ll just not hit the skip button today!
I hope that you’ll have a stretchy day!
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