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I worked for a dot com in the year 2000. Until it succumbed to the dot bomb in 2001.

One of the guy’s I worked with, a programmer, used to have this saying when he ran into a programming challenge that he couldn’t fix immediately. As he continued to work on the problem, in his thick Tennessee drawl he’d say, “Strugglin’.”

When it comes to my life goal of following Christ I often struggle.

I struggle making time to life journal. I struggle praying to Him as often as I should. I struggle making Him my all, instead of myself my all.

I struggle going to him with everything. Everything. I often say to myself, “that’s too small, He doesn’t care about that.”

And then, he throws things at me to remind me who He is:

Luke 14

1-3 One time when Jesus went for a Sabbath meal with one of the top leaders of the Pharisees, all the guests had their eyes on him, watching his every move. Right before him there was a man hugely swollen in his joints. So Jesus asked the religion scholars and Pharisees present, "Is it permitted to heal on the Sabbath? Yes or no?"

4-6They were silent. So he took the man, healed him, and sent him on his way. Then he said, "Is there anyone here who, if a child or animal fell down a well, wouldn’t rush to pull him out immediately, not asking whether or not it was the Sabbath?" They were stumped. There was nothing they could say to that.

If I fell down a well on a Sunday morning, He’d stop being worshiped to come pull me out.

That’s love.

“Recently, I’ve been struggling with ___________.”