Thursday, October 31, 2002
Thursday, October 31, 2002
For this I toil and struggle with all the energy that he powerfully inspires within
me.
So he wrote a note to his "house mother" that he was
suffering from a severe attack of ergasiophobia--a recurrent
condition with him, his note said, which was not at all
dangerous, but resulted in listlessness, extreme fatigue, and
virtual immobilization.
It usually passed with a day of rest, his note continued,
so he would confine himself to his room, and would she please
inform his teacher that he was indisposed.
She did so, and no one broke into his room to drag him
off to classes. It was late afternoon, and his paper was
finished, by the time she submitted his note to the school
doctor. The doctor must have smiled when he told the house
mother that ergasiophobia means "a morbid aversion to any work."
I hope none of us have that illness today. When we allow Christ to live in our hearts and walk
with us through our day, we will be filled with God's awesome energy.
(Colossians 1.29
NRSV)
I read that when
former presidential adviser James C. Humes attended a very strict
English boarding school, he found himself so far behind in
writing a paper that he desperately needed a whole day off to
finish it.
Dear God, fill me with your majestic energy. Amen.
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