Ever been stuck - car hugging a snowbank so tightly you needed a neighbour's tractor and a few strong testosterone-filled individuals to release the car from its loving 'death grip'? Or calf-high (as in your own, not as in actual cow babies...)rubber boots in riverbank mud - trying not to shriek out in surprise at the frigidness of the water as it cascades against your leg while attempting to yank yourself loose from the squelchy mire? Or how about just plain routine?
That's the location where I often find myself stuck. Stuck - part of the dictionary.com definition - "to be at a standstill, as from difficulties: I'm stuck on this problem; to be embarrassed or puzzled; hesitate or scruple".
Stuck, stuck, stuck doing the same things the same way... But, wait, have you ever surprised yourself with a solution to that "standstill"? Wondered why, as you were overcome with a "eureka!" solution, you were ever performing the routine that way in the first place? Since our coffee maker "bit the caffeinated dust" a year ago I have been daily brewing my addictive poison in a French Coffee Press. This wonderful contraption has nestled ever-so-comfortably on the top shelf of one of our cupboards - so high that every morning I grappled with wooden stick and catapulting stainless steel. Finally one day, "Eureka!": could I not simply rearrange some of the bottom shelf inhabitants to make room for a tall, robust, shiny friend? Why was I ever performing that routine that way in the first place?
Well, I'm off for some "always under construction" adhesive-elimination (yeah, yeah, fancy for: change, growth & un-'stucking')...4 days at the "Emmaus Project" conference in Alliston("The Emmaus Project is transforming, recharging and refreshing presbyteries within The Presbyterian Church in Canada" http://presbyterian.ca/emmaus/ ).
Talk to you Sunday evening...
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