Join The”Febra-lution”

I have coined a new phrase and tradition for all of us procrastinators: Febra-Lution. We all make New Year’s Resolutions. Mine was to step up my prayer life, start writing my blog once a week, AGAIN, and get to the gym several times a week, AGAIN. Well, here it is, a month and a half into the New Year, my first blog. I have been to the gym three times, and prayer life is a work in progress. Hence Febra-Lution, the real-time to start anew.

We all put off the important over the urgent – work, family, and fires to put out. My husband suffered chest pains after Christmas. Like most men, he ignored it for days, even going to work and the gym daily. Finally, he went to the ER, only to find out he had two pulmonary embolisms and two blood clots in his leg. We had gotten him there just in time. Why do we put off the most important because work or life gets in the way? What is it about us that says we do not deserve better? Why do we settle when there is so much more if we only stop running around?

The author of the Narnia book and film series, C.S. Lewis, nailed it.
“It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”

We need the holiday at the sea. We need to stress what is important. Life is but a flash. Here today and gone tomorrow. We learned this at the hospital over the holidays. God will slow us down to get our attention. He has immeasurably more for us than we can ask or imagine-infinite joy! He is more than able to change our lives and hearts. He tells us, “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” (Jeremiah 29:11). That is the “important” and is far better than what we want.

It is not too late to start anew! God is waiting to hear from you and to bless you. Stop making mud pies. Come to the sea. Join the Febra-lution! I started writing today. Tomorrow the gym!