Growing Concerns
If you want to grow Halbertcicles, remember that you can’t. Neither can I. All we can do is put water in an ice cube tray and stick it in the freezer. After that, when it comes to getting results, we are all in God’s good hands. We can provide favorable conditions for growth, but growth itself is in God’s hands.
I’m very grateful that God has given me a bunch of Halbertcicles as a way to learn and to share life’s lessons.
The general wisdom is that God works in strange ways. As I see it, the question is, “How willing are we to work with the strange ways of God?” The degree to which we can handle God’s strangeness without getting egotistical or otherwise freaked out about it, is the degree to which the conditions are ripe for the expression of God’s wonderfully miraculous strangeness.
If you’re going to try to grow some Halbertcicles, you will be faced with the issue of taking success and failure personally. If you want to take something personally that will do you a lot of good, then take the love that God has for you personally. Trust that the circumstances of your life are always a reflection of God’s love and wisdom. Yes, take God’s love personally; it’s healthy and inspiring. If you take personally whether or how wildly the Halbertcicles grow, there’s a good chance that you will experience needless stress and be left uninspired.
All there is to do is appreciate the blessing of a Halbertcicle if it occurs. Remember, what’s normal is that they don’t occur most of the time, even for me. And I’m Halbert! So what does that tell ya?
If you provide the conditions for Halbertcicles to grow and you let other people know that you are doing this, it will have some effect on your relationships with those people. Think about this. Notice this. Play with this. Be gentle with this.
Like any unusual phenomenon, if you get involved with it, there will be the natural human tendency to compare yourself with others and for them to compare themselves with you. Comparison is no big deal. That can add value and insights to life. But comparing can lead to judging. Don’t go there. It takes all the fun out of life.
Be gentle with yourself and hopefully others will be gentle with you. The intermittent nature of Halbertcicles, especially for those who have never had them grow before, can be intimidating. Remember, the intermittent nature of them also makes it more exciting when they do grow. It’s all in perfect balance that way. Getting the lessons we need about faithfulness are infinitely more valuable than Halbertcicles in the freezer.
Halbertcicles are excellent for learning about faithfulness!
We might be tempted to think that Halbertcicles are not growing because we have done something wrong or that they are growing because we have done something right. Maybe they are not growing because we need to see in ourselves, or someone else needs to see in us, a faithfulness that transcends whether or not some Halbertcicles grow in the freezer. Maybe they grow because our faith needs a boost rather than because we have already been “sufficiently” faithful.
I don’t know. I don’t care. Why? Because this is all about judging one’s self or others which is not what we’re suppose to be doing anyway, near as I can tell. So let ‘s let it go. To play the game is to win the game in this case.
The lessons are everything. The lessons can be learned in many different ways. Halbertcicles aren’t special in this regard at all. There are many teachers who can teach us math, and there may be some good reasons for picking one teacher over another, but the lessons are still the same. I like growing through my experiences with Halbertcicles. I hope you do, too.
Please feel free to share your experiences. If you think you could use my assistance, please let me know. That’s what I’m here for.