So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. – Romans 12:1-2 (MSG)

Did you ever see the movie “What About Bob?” That movie totally cracks me up…in the scene above, Bob (who seems crazy but by the end of the movie turns out to be sane) gets advice from his psychologist Dr. Marvin (who seems sane but by the end of the movie turns out to be crazy) about using “baby steps” to get over his problems. Baby steps says Dr. Marvin is the process of  “setting small reasonable goals for yourself one day at a time, one tiny step at a time.”

I think Dr. Marvin is on to something. Sometimes the issues we have to work on, the sin that dogs us on a regular basis and all that we wish we were seem so BIG, it is hard to have hope that we can change. And of course, we can’t really change without the Holy Spirit. And although the Holy Spirit can change us however He wants to, it seems to me the route is often through a painstaking daily process of learning to depend on Him, one baby step at a time.  As Mary Anne Radmacher wrote: ” Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow. ” With God’s help.
PS The “is this corn hand-shucked?” scene in “What About Bob?” is HI-LARIOUS!!!!