Treadmill of life

Men, husbands, and especially fathers, not unexpectedly, sometimes feel that life is just a gigantic treadmill.....one that once you're on it seems to take a mind of its own.  One that all too often seems to hard to get off of.  One that is sometimes really uncomfortable to be on.

This is especially true when we have those defining moments when we look at ourselves as we really are.  It's those moments when we can't shy away from our dirtiness, how lost we may be, and how broken we are.  It's at those moments when we are seeing those things in us and about us that we never share and will go to extremes to prevent anyone else from seeing.  But, we know they are there...within us, and we know that they are stopping us from being all that we could be and hopefully all that we want to be.  Yes, it's like a treadmill so often....it just keeps going on.

 

How do you get off of that treadmill?  You go to the toolbox.  And, if you need to, you go again....and again.....and again.  Kind of like fixing the car, sometimes multiple trips to the toolbox are needed until the fix is made.  We all should know what's in the toolbox:

• prayer, asking for, and acknowledging forgiveness
• the Word
• community (sharing with another Christian that we trust)
• a positive attitude about yourself and your choice to be better
• a thankful and grateful attitude that you are a child of God
• acceptance of the knowledge that Christ died for all of your sins
• and more....think of some !

We don't have to be married to that treadmill in our life.  You have the choice to adopt another treadmill, one that will bring joy to your life, one that will sustain your needs, one that will make you the whole man you really desire to be.

 

Adopt a new treadmill !