and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life and attend to your own business and work with your hands, just as we commanded you,I never really adopted a life verse, formally; I thought I had one as a kid, but it turned I was taking it badly out of context so I abandoned it. But if I had a life verse today, this would probably be it. It sums up my life patterns pretty well.
However, I sometimes worry that I've taken it a little too far. My efforts to live a quiet life have made my life virtually silent, with little-to-no impact on the outside world. And my desire to mind my own business has turned into being a relational hermit, where I never venture outside myself because I don't feel I'm welcome in anyone else's life. Unfortunately, I now find myself in the position of having no clue how to change the areas I've gone overboard, without compromising who I am; I feel like I've painted myself into a corner.
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