The title for this blog has been one of my main life mottos for years. I have a bunch of mottos that I use to remember and teach principles and guidelines for living life well, but this one has been one of the key ones. For most of my life, it has been relatively easy to live by this personal guideline because I have been much more of a cognitive person than an emotional one.

But as I get older, I find myself getting more emotional almost by the day. I guess it really isn’t emotion as much as attitude or feelings. For instance, I find myself feeling unmotivated to get out of my recliner and do one of the many things on my “to-do” list. It wasn’t that many years ago that I was consumed with getting everything done on my list and then writing a new one; I was highly motivated and loved to work. Now, I get things on my list done because I remind myself that they are essential and need to be done, and if I don’t get them done, I am irresponsible, unfaithful, lazy, and a good-for-nothing. I get most of what I need to do accomplished, but it is much more of a grind than it used to be.

I think that as God is working at growing my character, He is making life more difficult so that I grow faster because I have so many character flaws, and there isn’t much time left to refine them.

Well, I am all about growing to become like Jesus, so I will continue to cooperate with God and act responsibly instead of being a lazy, good-for-nothing.