The story...
It's best to hold a tennis racket and handlebars loosely - gripping too tightly may over corrects and take us where we don't wanna go quickly. My first rides on my KLR in deep sand were out of control and scary. What I learned about riding motorcycles in deep sand seems to apply to life too.
- Don't sit down - stay balanced on your feet
- Relax your mind and your body will follow - fight the urge to grip too hard
- Do your steering through your feet weighting the pegs
- Maintain momentum - consistent throttle control
- When done right, it's like a dance - joyful
Looking back twenty years, most of the people, places and things have changed. They'd have changed no matter how hard I tried to keep them the way I thought best. If I wouldn't have been open to new people, places, things, and ideas - Id have missed out on much of the joy of life.
I'm learning to hold onto relationships less tightly - they change and are best when freely offered and accepted. Sometimes, what I thought I wanted was not what they could actually give or accept. "Stay balanced and let them be." They may choose to dance a similar dance as you; but, not with you - that's okay. It seems better, and more respectful, to let them live their own life - the freedom to enjoy the few close dance partners that we each may have.
The only church in town will be a good place to develop life-giving relationships. Hopefully, the relationships will be characterized as freely offered, graceful, forgiving, and changing too. Your relationship with God, through faith in Christ, is obviously the most important. He's the foundation for the best relationships - those dances that're part of a joyful life lived out in ever-changing circumstances.
Just for today...
"Imagine bad; Anxious worry - Obsessive thoughts; In a hurry."
"Quiet soul; Can it be? - Faith in God; He's the key." Am I a Poet?
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