Lead versus Driven ~ Doldrums

Greetings Dear Reader,

One of the challenges of being driven by the Spirit is that there well be times when there is not wind.  We have our sails unfurled and have cast off the mooring lines.  The anchor is up and stowed.  The sails hang there while the sea is still and warm.

It is the waiting that is more fire than the working.  We always want to be doing something if we are truly wishing to be driven.  The problem is that even in the waiting we are being obedient.  We cannot see over the horizon.  We cannot see the building winds that are past our sight to come fill our sails.

The doubt and impatience will come.  The thoughts will assail you as you try to sleep.  The constant battle against worry and for faith must be waged.  You can only do what you can do.  You can only take the steps available to you.

Others will doubt your efforts.  Only you know.  Others will question your perspective.  Only you can say if you have done what you should.  Only you know the wind when it comes.  Being driven means you wait for the wind.

It is not going to be the way you imagine or perhaps not even the way you hope.  You will, however, find the wind and it will propel you onward.  Learn in the doldrums.  Learn in the wilderness.  Learn so that you are ready when the time comes.

Wishing you joy in the journey,

Aramis Thorn

Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every writer who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a home owner. He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure store.”

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