but do I want to?
Thinking about doing the thing doesn’t count as actually doing the thing.
Even if you have the most vivid imagination in the world, you need to leave your mind’s simulation of reality.
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The importance of patience and cultivation in well-doing, emphasizing the long, invisible process between planting and reaping.
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Eugene Peterson suggests that the person who looks for quick results in the seed planting of well-doing will be disappointed.
If I want potatoes for dinner tomorrow, it will do me little good to go out and plant potatoes in my garden tonight.
There are long stretches of darkness and invisibility and silence that separate planting and reaping.
During
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And it’s really easy to miss this point. It’s easy to always think “I can do this tomorrow” or “this is not a priority” or “this would never work”. And it’s hard, because sometimes those thoughts are correct. But I find that, unless I put in active effort, I’m the kind of person who’ll always have those thoughts. I’ll never actually act upon my... See more
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