Maybe it’s a gen-Y thing, maybe it’s affluence, or maybe it’s just human, but this morning I found myself curled on my bed, head in my pillow in what I immediately and honestly labelled as a helpless ball of ‘I don’t want to.’
When the working week finally draws to an end, Saturday arrives, bright with sunshiny promise and smudged by a list of chores from a week of saying ‘I’ll get to that on Saturday.’ As the ugly head of self-entitlement rears, I find myself feeling cheated by the idea that a day that could be full of self-indulgent pleasures is actually full of things I should do.
This self-entitlement reigns as I potter pathetically, doing a bit of this and that, but really nothing at all, before finding myself in the aforementioned ball on my bed. I’m not depressed. It’s not a state of dark, canyon-like ‘I can’t’, just a childish, spoilt ‘I don’t want to.’
I’m pleased to say that my realization of this ‘state,’ along with the idea of airing it to the world, was all the motivation I needed to get off the bed, change my attitude and get it all done. A driving factor, too, was the tardy realization that I serve a God who has a greater purpose for me than being curled up because ‘I don’t want to.’
eat drink sleep seek shelter/warmth seek human interaction (reproduction is optional)
these are things you ‘should’ do
everything else is…just…nice 😀
hmmm I think I’ll have to disagree with you there…
please expound 😀
I love your blog Sarah! You have such an eloquent way of writing! Cannot WAIT to read your book one day! 🙂
Thank you so much Emily. That is such an encouragement. x
I live for those Saturdays!
What, the ones where you have heaps of stuff to do that you don’t want to do? 😉
getting out of bed at 12, breakfast at 3. What is not to love? The sabbath was made for man.
lol, love it, sounds like me every day, :S
nice. 🙂
“A driving factor, too, was the tardy realization that I serve a God who has a greater purpose for me than being curled up because ‘I don’t want to.’” ….Thank you! This is something I desperately needed to hear. 🙂
So glad I could encourage you in some way. Sending up a prayer for you for whatever situation you are in.
Thanks for visiting and commenting too! x
I’m right there with you Sarah! Sometimes it takes all of my will power and a lot of God’s grace to actually get me moving…
Glad it’s not just me! x
Oh yes, Saturday mornings. I found a way around the “i don’t want to do this” feeling. It is called pretending that i’m still doing what I want by having my coffee in bed and then my morning time with God praying. I’am so relaxed after my time spent with the Father i’m ready for anything!
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