Got inertia?

Once again I give you thanks for your merciful love, kndest Lord, for having found another way of arousing me from my inertia.
Saint Gertrude the Great

Today was a low energy day for me. It's not that I didn't get anything done - I just didn't seem to be able to get any enthusiasm going.

At first I started to work on the small tasks, thinking coffee would kick in. It didn't. Then I went on to other tasks anyhow, but I wasn't feeling my usual sense of enthusiasm.

It was a good day. That wasn't the problem. I just felt the burden of inertia in all that I did.

Then the Peapod man came. Peapod is a food delivery service and the drivers really do wear green hats. (In fact, I am a VIP- Very Important Peapod customer. I got the notice in the mail and when I asked the driver if he was going to sing me a song, he did not look enthused. Fine.)

Usually the arrival of vast quantities of food excites me, but even that left me in a state of intertia. When my aide asked what I wanted for dinner, I started to think about it - and never told her. So she left me food out anyhow. (Thank you. I didn't even realize I didn't ever answer.)

I know that's true inertia, when I have an entire refrigerator full of food and I can't even think of what I want to eat!

So by now I'm really disgusted with myself, thinking that I'll just have to get through the day and chalk it up to National Inertia Day 2006 - remember the date.

But then Something happened. I always know when things with capital letters happen. Those Things Are Not Subtle.

I took some time out to pray. I read a bible passage "My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness." 2 Cor. 12:9. And I did indeed feel very weak for having this mind set of inertia. So I thought about just resting in God's grace. After all, I can draw strength that way.

So my inertia disappeared. I continued to plod along with my tasks and it's not even that I was any faster, but it was with an attitude of enthusiasm, not a sense of being in quicksand.

Got inertia? Pray!