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The following is a guest post I wrote for Lifechurch.tv’s Church Online Blog.
If you want to know the truth, I’ve become stiff. It happened gradually, so I didn’t notice it. Isn’t that always how it works? I mean, if we were aware of these things, we wouldn’t let them take place, right? But I’m stiff. The last time I checked I could bend over and and touch the very ends of my toes, maybe even sweep my fingertips along the floor. But now, now, a dull pain creeps up my spine and into my neck as I bend down to touch my knees. My toes appear miles away, almost blurry in the distance. I fear, if I continue at this rate, it might become painful just to extend my arms naturally by my sides without any sort of bending at all, and how tragic that would be!
This stiffness I refer to isn’t actually occurring in my physical body but in my spiritual muscles. It is a stiffness that effects far more than my own soul, but spreads out to the souls I also come in contact with. I can’t seem to extend my own arm to wrap around another. I can’t seem to reach past myself to help another up…{continue reading}
