There is a sickness that is typical in the scuba industry...as well as flying...as well as any other arena where there is a dramatic change in altitude. You body, when put under additional pressure from the air around it, must adjust to the change as you progress (whether it be going down in a Scuba dive or flying up in a plane). There are different decompression stops that must be made for your body to help you adjust. Without these, you can send your body into decompression sickness-"the bends". Without getting too technical (especially since I don't really know that much about it)...your body has natural gases that must be processed at different altitudes...without giving time to process it the right way, you can make your body very sick.
And so I am left with a question...does the same thing happen mentally and/or spiritually? Have you ever felt like you have gone from one spiritual climate to another so quickly that you feel out of it? Felt like your external situations take you from the mountain tops to the valleys in the course of the same day? I just wonder what the effects are of the spiritual bends or if it even exists. What about the mental bends? Does something like that exist?
I have noticed that the rhythms of my life on certain days cause me to experience something of the bends. I can go from the most visionary, mission oriented moments to the most unimportant tasks, and all the while feel this sickness in me that I can't process. How can you run back and forth from honoring God in the smallest of things to honoring Him in these big glamorous ways...and then back and forth again and again?
Sometimes I feel like it would be easier to just sit at one altitude forever then try to help my mind and spirit engage in all these different environment.
3 comments:
Cory, I have come to love your blogs, they give us all something to think about and/or help us to get back to living the way we should.
This blog was a great Idea for you!!
Megan
brilliant.
i like this.
cory, i really like having inspired you. inspiration is one of those things that so obviously goes-around-comes-around. i mean, honestly. inspiration leads to the exhalation of creativity which leads to inspiration and so on. basically, it gives me more reasons to want to write. if i write, and it makes other people want to write, so they do, which makes other other people want to write, so they do, and so on! then...that's a good reason to want to do something, i'd say.
thesis: well done. i'm glad you're writing.
:D
i think our feeling of self-doubt and uneasiness comes from inconsistency. we are taught that we should continually be moving forward, up the mountain, to bigger, greater things...leaving the "smaller living" behind with each step...
however, life is not linear. yes we move forward to bigger/better/greater, but we must always remember that significance is not measured by the size of the task, but by the impact. to affect even one person with a small kindness is powerful and neccessary.
life doesnt have to be (and should not be) a roller coaster, but a realization that "greatness" doesnt always translate to "big" and it's ok to do small things for God...in fact that's where he looks to find the true state or our heart.
i'm loving your blogs by the way.. ;D
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