A Funny Thing That Happened On The Way To the Forum

For those that don't know....is a musical.

Musicals tell life stories (okay maybe not completely TRUE stories but stories nonetheless).

The funny thing that happens on MY way to the forum is that my song begins to reprise itself...even though I thought I had finished it in Act 1.

That reprise never seems to end.

When you let things go, God gives them back to you. When you finally make a hard decision God provides an easier solution. When you think one chapter of your life is finished he starts to rewrite it.

A Funny Thing That Is.

Today I was reminded that discipline, true discipline leads to freedom. Example: When you want to learn to improvise on the piano, you must first learn all the chords and scales so that you have a base from which to pool from. Only after learning all that can you have the freedom to improvise and do whatever you want,

I need to be disciplined. Not just because I WANT freedom, but because I know it's the only way to really get to the heart of God and align mine more with His.

And that's what I want.

I'm realizing that so many of the things I worry about, the things that distract my mind and my heart, could easily be solved by being disciplined. Focusing my mind on what God wants, so that worry and distraction disappears and I am left with God's plan for my life.

Oh how easy that sounds in theory.

I need a balance of heart, mind and (Holy) Spirit because 1) I think God intended for them to all work together, and 2) Because one of them normally ends up winning (and it's not the Spirit).

The "funny thing" that happens is the story you tell when you get to the forum. But I'm hoping that when I finally do get to the forum, I'll need less "funny things" to happen for me to get the message.