Sometimes we get tired of doing all the little things from day to day, of living a life made up of a bunch of small, seemingly unconnected parts...of chipping away at the dull but needed mundane things.

Now, what if this is the case, but one day someone comes along with a challenge, a higher calling...albeit a very difficult one?

I think the funny thing is that often what happens is we slip back into the mundane and use it as an excuse to avoid what we wished for in the first place. It may be out of fear of our lack of capability or else not wanting to be disturbed from our "comfort." I don't really think such comfort is truly comfort...we can live satiated lives and not be comfortable. I think the more difficult calling is ultimately the more "comfortable" one. But it scares us, and we manage to convince ourselves to hide away in tasks that exploit something like one-tenth of our true capability as humans and even less of our weakness made strong in Christ.

I think what we answer to our mental contemplations about this is so much of it. It's our minds that fear, and tell our bodies to settle back into "comfort" and inaction. Half the action is the choice made in the mind...and choosing to shy away in our minds is tantamount to binding ourselves to inaction, because once we make that mental choice, our minds work with us and our choice to find evidence to convince us that what we want really is best...

...after awhile it becomes hard to tell truth from deceit. We so easily deceive ourselves!