1 day ago
11.20.2011
Lost joy
I haven't posted much because I don't have anything to post about. I was on my road bike for 10 min this week, but other than that I haven't touched any of my bikes. I ran a 4 mile trail race which didn't go well last weekend and haven't run since. I think I might have ran 20 miles total since Austin. I don't have any races planned and I quite honestly don't have any desire to find a race. I don't have have any desire to do much of anything. Call it a rut, call it a funk. It is what it is.
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I am right there with ya but for me this has been going on all year. You will get out this way before me I just know it.
I know Christi. The firewall at work won't let me comment on your blog, but I understand completely. It just feels like someone sucked the fun out of everything I enjoy.
I don't normally read or reply to posts, but, I did a search for "lost joy" looking for material for a Power Point presentation. Your blog was the first listing that came back.
Just wondering if maybe you are looking for joy in the wrong place. After reading your posting, I came across these illustrations and thought it couldn't hurt to pass them along:
Men have pursued joy in every avenue imaginable. Some have successfully found it while others have not. Perhaps it would be easier to describe where joy cannot be found:
Not in Unbelief -- Voltaire was an infidel of the most pronounced type. He wrote: "I wish I had never been born."
Not in Pleasure -- Lord Byron lived a life of pleasure if anyone did. He wrote: "The worm, the canker, and grief are mine alone."
Not in Money -- Jay Gould, the American millionaire, had plenty of that. When dying, he said: "I suppose I am the most miserable man on earth."
Not in Position and Fame -- Lord Beaconsfield enjoyed more than his share of both. He wrote: "Youth is a mistake; manhood a struggle; old age a regret."
Not in Military Glory -- Alexander the Great conquered the known world in his day. Having done so, he wept in his tent, before he said, "There are no more worlds to conquer."
Where then is real joy found? -- the answer is simple, in Christ alone.
The Bible Friend, Turning Point, May, 1993.
JOY
Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition, when infinite joy is offered to us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in the slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.
C.S. Lewis.
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