Posts Tagged: stretching

“Doing My Stretches”

On April 24, 2017 by Dteb With 0 Comments - down to earth believer

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!

, , , , ,
Follow on Feedly