strength

merry Christmas everybody.

we all have a specific thing that we are particularly good at. Strong if you will.

For some of us, it is physical ability. We hit the gym, bulk up. see how many reps we can do. How ripped we are able to become.

Some of us try to be financially strong. How much money can we make, sock away, spend, How well can we be set in our financial lives.

There are those of us that attempt to be strong in soul. How strong can we make our relationship with the lord. How much can our music mean to us. How well are we able to get to know ourselves.

We try to be strong in our careers. The next level. the next promotion. the next great achievement. That next publishment if you are one of my researching friends.

And yet, there always seems to be a void in our lives regardless of how strong we may feel. There seems to be that weak spot for us. It is as if we spend so much effort making ourselves strong in one thing that we neglect the opposite of it. yin and yang.

I know many workaholic folks who have no home life. By contrast, I know lots of folks with great home lives who are not successful at work. I know that this gets back to the balance that I talked about a few posts ago, but it it a fascinating concept.

What I think is that we all need to pay attention to where our strengths lie.

The best possible example is a friend of mine who gets into bodybuilding. When he was just starting out, he focused on building his upper body. After a short time, he discovered that he was not gaining as much mass as he thought he should have been able to. Much to his own chagrin, he hired a personal trainer. He told the guy that he wanted to get big, ripped, whatever.

Do you know what happened? The personal trainer took him off of weights and started him on a cross-training routine for cardio. Then when he had gained some physical fitness, they started into the weight room. the created a routine that encompassed most of the major muscle groups in his body.

My friend did indeed get "big." And it happened very quickly. But it only happened because that trainer started out by focusing on the weak spots in the body.

We can all learn a lesson from this. If you have been working out the spots in your life where you are already strong, perhaps it is time to evaluate yourself. start working the things that you are not so good at. you know, the things that your spouse complains about.

You might be amazed at the degree of self satisfaction you find yourself with.

May god bless and keep you.
May he make his face shine upon you.
go in peace and serve the lord.
thanks be to god.
merry christmas.