God is holding the paint can for each of us. It is filled with the paint of free will.
Each day we dip into it our paintbrush of decision and paint our day with broad strokes of this and that.
Our day's collection of decision strokes creates a painting that then hangs in our personal gallery of days done.
Sometimes we paint ourselves stubborn, seemingly without good reason.
We won't budge on an issue because we have the liberty to stay put. Even when it is hurting us.
Stubborn gets painted onto: our relationships (I won't say I'm sorry--he started it), our health (yes, I know I shouldn't eat this way but I'm not going to change), our to-do list (I will do it tomorrow since I know I have tomorrow).
Stubborn usually paints us into a corner named Stuck. We become glued to a position that is really doing us harm...and we allow that.
Isn't that the most curious thing?
That we willingly choose to stay painted into a corner named Stuck?
God is holding the paint can, whispering ways to become Unstuck, and we look right at him and say, "I'll just stay Stuck, thank you very much."
I bet we look a bit comical. We create a glue trap that we then set for ourselves and...step in.
We get there by starting with that paintbrush of decision and the color Stubborn.
Perhaps that is why we get a fresh start every 24 hours. There's always hope that we'll get enough of Stuck and ask for help from the paint can holder.
God, could you help me out of my glue trap? I want a day's painting without Stubborn.
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