Knows what's up.

Here's a truth about me: I always, always want to do better. And I can feel this sense of drive & dis-satisfaction all the time if I allow myself to; which I don't, because then I would be pretty much disappointed 24-7.

My faith keeps me chugging along (minus the booze). I can see in the daily struggle to be or do "more" that bigger stuff is being worked through the process of daily life, regardless really how my efforts go.

That's because the Holy Spirit reminds me that my journey is both temporal and eternal, with the latter being immeasurably more important than all the other stuff that continually comes and goes.

Of course I am not immune from either fake temptation or the real need to be more successful. And this is often my problem (a kind of spiritual chafing). But here's what I truly believe:

The hurting part of doing less well than we think we ought to (and the consistent struggle to vindicate oneself from all the earlier labels), is converted in Christ as fuel for Salvation, not only mine but yours, if I simply share the bigger story, that strangely enough, often becomes a lot clearer when I talk about it.

Without Christ there is only winning and losing. In Jesus, everything is gain.

-- m1230