Changes

   

   

There are difficulties that arise, I know. Even we midwayers have disagreements among us but they are short-lived.  “Petty frictions” they call them. Petty frictions come about generally because your hands have not found something to do. When you are busily engaged in what you are to do, you don’t have time to worry about what others are doing. And when you are working diligently, conscientiously and lovingly at your task and someone encroaches upon your space, your time, your energy, you may feel compelled to inquire how you may be of assistance to them because perhaps they need taken care of before you can get back to work.

There are difficulties that arise, I know. Even we midwayers have disagreements among us but they are short-lived.  “Petty frictions” they call them. Petty frictions come about generally because your hands have not found something to do. When you are busily engaged in what you are to do, you don’t have time to worry about what others are doing. And when you are working diligently, conscientiously and lovingly at your task and someone encroaches upon your space, your time, your energy, you may feel compelled to inquire how you may be of assistance to them because perhaps they need taken care of before you can get back to work.

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This is part of the process of adapting to other personalities. You can find this in marriage or in business partnerships but more keenly in marriage because it is a personal relationship. One can be chugging along, happily doing its thing and along comes the spouse happily doing his thing and they run into each other in a way that stops the process that is time then to communicate and assess the situation, weighing and considering the factors, sometimes having to compromise, but learning in the process to include others and their plans as well.

This is part of the process of adapting to other personalities. You can find this in marriage or in business partnerships but more keenly in marriage because it is a personal relationship. One can be chugging along, happily doing its thing and along comes the spouse happily doing his thing and they run into each other in a way that stops the process that is time then to communicate and assess the situation, weighing and considering the factors, sometimes having to compromise, but learning in the process to include others and their plans as well.

   

   

   

   

Remember now the Garden of Gethsemane when the apostles were fearful that Jesus would be taken, and indeed he was arrested, and those that were there – not counting Judas – came rushing out to defend him. The Master knew that they had arms, weapons, on them, and they would have used those weapons to defend the Master in their loyalty to him, in their affection for him, in the injustice of putting to death such a noble man, and from a human perspective it can certainly be understood, their zeal.

Remember now the Garden of Gethsemane when the apostles were fearful that Jesus would be taken, and indeed he was arrested, and those that were there – not counting Judas – came rushing out to defend him. The Master knew that they had arms, weapons, on them, and they would have used those weapons to defend the Master in their loyalty to him, in their affection for him, in the injustice of putting to death such a noble man, and from a human perspective it can certainly be understood, their zeal.

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But he said, “No!  Back off.  Put your weapons away. I need you alive. I need you to be free to act. Don’t get yourself all tied up and become captive of your own passions.” And this is my point.  The master needs you freed up. He does not need you captive of your own passions, no matter how right and good and understandable they may be from the human vantage point.  

But he said, “No!  Back off.  Put your weapons away. I need you alive. I need you to be free to act. Don’t get yourself all tied up and become captive of your own passions.” And this is my point.  The master needs you freed up. He does not need you captive of your own passions, no matter how right and good and understandable they may be from the human vantage point.