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The real deal . . .

 

                       
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Either you decide to do it or you don't. Either way it's a commitment. As far as skills or hobbies or work goes, you either commit to it or you don't. You might think there's an in-between, but if you're lackadaisical or haphazard with something, you are not committed to it.

Most things that hold great value to an individual, a society, or a people require commitment. Within that commitment resides resolute intention, attention, and retention. Work in other words.

Ask anyone who commits to writing a book. Whether they fly through the pages or struggle with each word, to continue a project means that even when it's the least attractive to them because of other demands, laziness, fatigue, no inspiration, or a complete lack of desire to persevere, commitment requires the work be done. Whether or not it's painstaking or fluid, at some point commitment overrides all other objectionable reasoning.

You must decide what "it" means to you. Then commit. One way or the other.

 

Father, I'm committed to you. I fail miserably at times, but you own my heart and I want to please you. In the Name of Jesus, Amen.

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  1. BK Jackson (@BKJacksonAZ) Avatar
    BK Jackson (@BKJacksonAZ)

    I struggle with commitment a lot. Writing of course–I constantly question myself: “I don’t write books as quickly as everyone else. Maybe I’m just faking it–don’t really want it.” Yet I keep getting drawn back to the process, even if I’m about a thousand times slower then most people I know.
    And I go through that a lot with banjo playing. At least with writing, I have a little natural talent. Playing banjo is pure, hard scrabble. But it’s a very happy instrument–one I’d like to use to cheer others up someday when I get good enough. And I would very much love to learn to play hymns on banjo.
    But that requires commitment to daily practice. But instead of daily practice, I’ve had fits and starts over the last 10 years trying to learn to play. Again the question: “Am I just faking and should I give it up?”
    And the question of what I’m committed to is going to become even harder still because I’m at a point in life where I absolutely must make a career change for sanity’s sake. But I can’t do that without retraining. I must find something I’m committed to pursuing. And that will be satisfying in the end.
    I would rate commitment (whether to God, career, hobby, relationships) one of the all time most difficult aspects of life to handle.

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  2. Nicole Avatar
    Nicole

    I think commitment wears a different face for individuals. There are always required similarities, but in the trenches it looks and acts differently.
    You judge yourself too harshly, Brenda. You’re committed to God, number One, obviously and completely. With that commitment in order, the other things fall into place whenever we avoid laziness which I’ve “known” you long enough to see you are definitely NOT.
    Your writing is crammed in between work and R&R which you need. Your banjo playing will have its day, and you give to it what you can. And although we often feel pressed and encumbered by how fast we “should” be accomplishing something, sometimes things just can’t move at the speed we wish they could.
    In spite of your difficult job, you’re not a slacker and you do it day after day. Finding a job these days – even with retraining – is just not a guaranteed objective thanks to this manufactured economic climate.
    You’re a very committed woman, Brenda, and you can rejoice in that.

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