Where is the pause when we work all the time. We stay constantly busy. But to what end? We instrumentalize ourselves to our own detriment. We are slaves to our habits and can never be King while obeying self-inflicted yokes. After all, God didn’t say he was the King of slaves. He said I am the King of Kings. Therein lies the rub.
If we are to be the King of anything, we must have regular, ritualistic, or religious rest from it. Sleep, Sabbath, solemnity of any kind, all constitute a closer walk with God. Even our biorhythms are the exercise of energetic activity and stillness. If an electric car needs a periodic recharge, how much more do we need to hook up to Gods grid on a regular basis. Further, our interim of stillness marks, at its beginning, the completion of one thing and, at its ending, the beginning of another.
“You have to take a pause, for that thing to be complete, and for there to be a new beginning.” Use the pause to fortify your energy. Jordan Peterson cited Psychological studies which show productivity increases after a respite from ‘the habit’.
I suspect we were thrown into competition with other to see who could die of activity first, who could lose their identity first, who could lose the cares of childhood first, and who could be the best slave first. For example, we must admit the ‘hamster wheel’ and the “rat race” are terms coined on the presumption that grinders are, in essence, less than human. Therefore, why not pay attention to descriptions meant to admonish our aberrant ways, hence avoiding the stereotype?
Run from responsibility now and again. Act like a child from time to time. Play. God gave us this world to steward and enjoy.
He presented man with a trust indenture beginning with Genesis 1: 28 “And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it : and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every other living thing that moveth upon the earth.” Consequently, we were supposed to carve out time to work, not steward. We were supposed to live in the pause, not in sequential states of relentless activity.
“We need a transition between states so those states can be full.” This applies broadly across all endeavors of life, including our humble golf swings. The transition, embodied in ’the pause’, marks the end of one ‘state’ and the beginning of another. We should never be so frenetic that we lose our staging area. If we do, we will eventually contaminate the next activity and thus fail to take dominion over our motion, and no longer be the King of our Swing.
John Wright – Founder
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