My personality is such that I am a great starter and terrible at maintenance. I’m a wait-until-the-low-fuel-light-comes-on kind of guy. I may have passed 10 gas stations in the past two miles, but even though I was on “E” the gas light wasn’t on yet, so I figure I have plenty of fuel left. The problem with living life this way, I’ve found, is that it allows for such dramatic swings in life that not much is steady and consistent. I’ll go a solid month working my tail off and then crash into zombie mode for 5 days straight.
I’m not much of a fan of New Year’s resolutions, but I am a fan of being effective…and it’s hard to be effective if you’re not consistent. I’ve learned that the thing people are looking for most in life is a person that they know they can count on. It’s obvious in most relationships, and it’s obvious in marriages, and it’s very obvious in parenthood.
So I guess that’s where the fresh start comes in.
I desire, more than anything, to be the most effective husband/father/pastor/child of God I can be.
This is where the whole maintainance thing comes in.
It means not waiting until the empty light comes on to refuel.
It means being invested
It means having something to invest
It means believing that the Gospel is capable of changing a persons entire life, including your own
It means prayers of desperation and urgency rather than prayers of convenience and tradition
It means being obvious and honest and compassionate and broken
It means being filled to the point of overflowing
