Arise and work, do the thing that I have put before you. Don’t spend time figuring out how it all fits together. Don’t feel the pressure to think through all the possibilities. And most importantly, don’t think that I will give you any unimportant tasks, no matter how mundane they may seem at the time.
Good advice in turbulent times
It is easy to get our knickers in a twist over current events. It is easy to get caught up in the rhetoric of whichever political party seems to better fit our predisposition.. It is easy to feel overwhelmed and wonder if things will ever stabilize or get better.
Pursue the reality beyond
For my generation, I would also offer the hope that it is never too late to return and see the reality that you’ve been ignoring. I must constantly remind myself that there is a reality beyond the thing that consumes me at the moment. I must, as the psalmist reminds me, “prepare my heart” to be conscious of the eternal. I must not let good things become ultimate things in my life.
