Being out of rhythm is painful
Every once in a while I leave my wallet at home (like I did in January for an overnight flight and trip). Have my ID but no cash or cards and venture out unwittingly into daily life. Done that two days straight. I am out of rhythm!
Today is the middle day of three weeks in a Greek intensive course. Good times. Challenging material, and time consuming. Feel like giving up many times a day, as all things worth doing take hard work.
My only quasi-complaint is that the dusk to past dawn schedule of life these three weeks makes being healthy a difficult chore. (Okay, I’m not complaining, just observing!). No cycling into town (which is good for my back especially), so no exercise other than walking, and little sleep as I’ve been up past midnight parsing and translating and memorizing.
Again, I am, in a phrase: out of rhythm . Could not keep up this pace for more than a little sprint like this. The mental and emotional drain — especially wanting to be my best self for Kari and for Dutch in the evenings, pushing Greek to after they head to bed — is multiplied by physical pain. My back pain flairs up, and posture doesn’t help when sitting almost the entire day. Feels like a knife in the lower back. Being out of rhythm is painful.
We were meant to be in step with the Spirit, to have different tempos for different seasons, and to both labor hard and to rest well. Looking forward to getting back in a more manageable rhythm later this month, since life is a marathon and not a sprint like this.
(Some call it a daily routine or even balance , but I call it rhythm , as we were created to walk in step with our Creator on His chosen path. Routine sounds boring and mundane, and balance reminds of weighing good and bad. ‘Rhythm’ brings a sacredness to the mundane activities of life, those things we have to do and joyfully participate with Christ and in cultivating them into worship experiences.)
And I pray I would continue to be actively fighting against temptation all the while. May Christ be with us, under us, before us, upholding and carrying us all the way.
