Be Up and Doing

I'm kind of a lazy person...I'll admit that.  I haven't always been that way, but over time it has just sort of developed.  I love to be on my computer, even if I'm doing nothing at all.  I will read the news, check my email, watch a TV show, play a game.  I think it's my little escape from the world that is mine.   I can just tune everything out and be in my own little space.  There's nothing necessarily wrong with that, but I do it way too much.  My housework suffers, my physical fitness has much to be desired, and even my relationships with my family are less than they should be.  I hide.  What started out as just hiding has become habit.  I can't walk past my office without checking my favorite websites.  So now, it's just sort of become easier to hang out in here all day.  And so, what started out as escaping has evolved into simple laziness.

I loved reading today more about Captain Moroni.  What an incredible man he was.  Definitely movie-quality, super-hero type stuff.  But out of everything I read today, four words jumped off the page.  Moroni was venting his frustrations to the governor that more food and reinforcements had not been sent to him and Helaman.  He was angry.  He told Pahoran, the governor, that unless he decided to do something, he would make sure the government was overthrown.

And now, except ye do repent of that which ye have done, and begin to be up and doing, and send forth food and men unto us, and also unto Helaman, that he may support those parts of our country which he has regained, and that we may also recover the remainder of our possessions in these parts, behold it will be expedient that we contend no more with the Lamanites until we have first cleansed our inward vessel, yea, even the great head of our government. (Alma 60:24)

Be up and doing.  I love that phrase!  Get busy.  I need to take that phrase literally.  Get up.  Get out of the office.  Get going.  Get doing.  It's not as if I don't have things that need doing.  I really do have places to go and people to see and many, many worthwhile projects to complete.  I know that it will be a difficult change for me to make, but I can do hard things.  I know I can.  I'll just start out with a little bit at a time.  I can get my priorities back to where they need to be, and before long I will change my laziness into activity.  If anyone needs to find me, I'll be up and doing. 

"High Five, Mr. Bee"                                                    ©Darrell Wyatt

Click here to read what I read today: Alma 59

Click here to read what I read today: Alma 60