Half Measures

Spiritual half measures avail us nothing. Not a little, not some, zero. Having entered into a secular endeavor half halfheartedly, what was the outcome? Any unfinished “projects” lying around the house, perhaps buried in the back of a closet or worse seemingly mocking us every time we walk by them? Exercise equipment serving as a clothes rack or taking up space in the garage, perhaps a shelf full of dusty self help/diet books? Diet food aging gracefully in the cupboard or freezer?

On the secular plane we can go to work half halfheartedly and still draw a paycheck, at least for a time. A poorly built house is still built, a badly painted room still painted. Our spiritual life however requires total commitment, half measures resulting not only in our failure to demonstrate but instilling the false belief that we tried and God didn’t deliver, probably because we really are unworthy or God is just too busy with important things. Nonsense. NONSENSE. God is source, “Our Father" in every sense. We are His children, children of the miraculous and all the gifts and blessings that relationship represents are ours for the asking but we must ask without reservation, standing firm in faith, consistent in our prayers, meditations and actions, for spiritually, half measures truly avail us nothing.

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