Remember St. Augustine’s insightful (and quite humorous, really) quote in The Confessions?
“Lord, make me chaste, but not yet.” (emphasis added)
It’s a wonderfully pithy articulation of that human capacity to hold back from the goodness that we might become.
And of course it applies to anything that takes courage and initiative… that thing that we mean to do, but have just not got around to it.
The momentum of the new year is a great time to push past the “but not yet.”
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