My first post on this blog was December 16, 2011.This post will be #245. That’s an average of about 10 posts a month. I discovered some things about myself while doing this. One, I’m sometimes really motivated to write and at other times – “not so much.” Two, sometimes I notice things that make it easy for me to write and at other times – it’s almost impossible to come up with a topic.

Today is more like the latter – not very motivated and nothing really jumps out at me as a good topic.

But that got me thinking – isn’t life sort of like that. Sometimes we’re really motivated and inspired. Then there are those moments when we just “don’t feel it.” Relationships are like that too.

Too often we make bad decisions when we’re “not feeling it.” Today I wasn’t feeling it when it came to writing this blog. But I knew I needed to write one. So I pushed forward and – an idea finally came. Thus this entry. It may not be my best, but it’s not terrible. You’re reading it!

In our relationships we will have moments when we just need to push forward and do the right thing – even if we don’t feel inspired to do it. Often the emotion we’re longing for comes after we actually do the loving thing.

Sunday we’re going to look at not making excuses in our relationships with other people. For example, stop using the lack of emotion as an excuse to not show love.

I look forward to seeing you Sunday. I also look forward to days when I feel more inspired than I felt today.

Pastor Steve Hogg