Fear of Effort

Yet work I must.

It was along the fence line that I discovered it: an eroded part of the land, a growing hole under the timber. It had been used ever more.

My heart dropped, for work would be required, and change needed. Earth work, a new fence. Effort, and possibility of failure.

I hesitated to begin. The comfort of routine called me. Genuinely alarmed, I dithered, and thus let foxes come and cull the herd.

Lord, let me act when I ought.

– from the mountain


Consider:

Am I willing to act?


Reading:

“He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars.” — William Blake, Jerusalem

“Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison

“Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.” — James 4:17 (KJV)


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