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