It Takes Work

In my last post I briefly mentioned two books I was reading, I’ll get to those books in detail soon, but for now I will go into detail about what I’m doing. I remember sophomore year in high school chemistry learning about entropy. Entropy (for those who care, and those who don’t I’m writing this anyway) is the principle that without work/effort things go from a state or order to disorder. A good example is the cleanliness of my room. Another example is our relationships, especially with God. I used to think Christianity was a “one and done thing” I say I believe and that was it. Well I was wrong, it requires work and lots of it. Our relationship with God is described as a marriage in the Bible, could you imagine a marriage where the groom says “I do, okay so that’s it right?” Like any relationship, ours with God requires time, effort, and communication. That means devotion, prayer, and digging into that Bible on the nightstand. I admit that I’ve fallen off a bit lately. For whatever reason I haven’t been praying as much and reading my Bible and suddenly I looked around and said “Wait where am I?” I wrote about stewardship of time and how I have a limited amount of time left, well I know I am still very young but that means I have lots of time to cover even more ground. I was talking with my father the other day that the last thing I want to is to graduate from Holy Cross, get a job I don’t like, raise a successful family, and look back at it all saying “What was it all worth? Who was it all for?” Without effort our relationships break down, it takes work, hard work sometimes, to keep it going. While I am not a fan of resolutions I now resolve to put the work in that God deserves, the last thing I want is a life lived for nothing.