customs vs disciplines

I wrote that last one in a state of jet-lag from being on the other side of the world - then my back went out!

YOU BET I NEEDED REST, RECOVERY=HELP AND REFUGE - from all forms of "back-lash".  Still do, as always.  But it's all much better.  Thankfully.

On my journey, I was pondering the different customs of cultures.  (As for the process of going through "customs", it was a disordered mess and I missed a gate change at a particular US airport - cost me a whole extra day of travel!)

I realized that in my personal life, I have customs also.  It is my custom to commune with Elohiym in the early morning.  That is a pleasant thing.  It is natural for me.  Yet many, many years ago it started as a discipline.

I could have chosen many different uses of that time.  But I NEEDED to press in to HIM because things were...not easy, to say the least.  Still aren't, really.

Customs develop over a long period of time.  It's not that they are some sort of LAW that restricts you and you have to STRIVE to abide by it.  It is just a natural way of being, and doing follows.

I am again speaking to myself because I tend to overdo attempts at DISCIPLINE which makes the thing HARDER.  You beat yourself up for not sticking to it!  Whereas a custom is a pleasant thing that CAN FLEX with circumstances.

My "list" for the day can become more customary than a set of Requirements!!

My life just got EASIER!  (now to make more of my disciplines a custom!:)