Wallerin’!!!

Well. It’s confession time. I hope no policemen read this. Actually I do. That way at least someone would be reading my silliness!

Anyway. I don’t believe in Wallerin’.

In case you don’t know what I mean, I’ll give you a few meanings – according to the official KaraBethian Dictionary. One meaning of waller is to waste time doing nothing. I confess that taking it easy on Sundays after church to me is wallerin’. I know I’m supposed to keep the Sabbath holy, and I try not to do work, but double ding dang! I’ve got to do better than I have been doing! Sitting around doing nothing, aka wallerin’, makes me feel guiltier than I would be than if I did 5 loads of laundry or something!

So lazy wallerin’ is doing nothing.

But it can also mean driving slowly when going faster seems like a better choice. For instance…

The picture above shows a scene that jerks an old lady’s neck and back out of whack every time she obeys the traffic pattern and oozes over the speed bumps. That to me is dangerous and painful wallerin’!

My solution?

I wait until no one is coming from the other direction and take the shortest distance – a straight beeline over those speed bumps at – well, I’m not sayin’ how fast I am actually going, but it doesn’t take me long to get into the parking garage. Upon exiting, I do the same thing in reverse and race down the one way hill to the lower parking lot so I don’t have to hit another set of speed bumps.

I don’t know if taking speed bumps at a reasonable speed (like I drive) is hard on the shocks or tires or if wallerin’ over them like some old lady (which I am not – sorta not) is better for the car. But I don’t care. I will not waller!  At least until I get pulled over by some sweet officer of the law at which time I will try to explain my logic. He’ll probably just think I’m wallerin’ in a whole heap of crazy and give me a warning.

Then I get into my physical therapy room or the pool where I refuse to waller! And by golly, if I am going to take time for therapy, I’ll be derned if I loll around at either place! I am going to go full-bore like I drive. Let’s just get ‘er done!

Thirty jillion exercises with thirty reps each? You got it, brother! Resting between? Nope. That’s wallerin’.

The first Scripture verse that entered my mind while I wondered how I could bring in God’s Holy Word – well, it makes me giggle a wee bit. Numbers 32:23 came immediately to my mind. ‘Be sure your sins will find you out!’ OOPS!

None of these apply exactly to my wallerin’ issue, but it does sort of show a hung-ho mindset. Not that I’m blamin’ the Good Lord for lazy grumpiness on Sunday afternoons, or my rather ‘enthusiastic’ driving, or my overzealous exercising but the verses do show a bit of my thought pattern.

Ecclesiastes 9:10 says, ‘Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might.’ Proverbs 14:23. ‘In all toil there is profit.’ Proverbs 6:6-8 says for the sluggard to watch the ants and consider her ways. Have you ever seen an ant waller? Neither have I!

As I was looking up more verses on diligence and my eyes fell upon the first part of Psalm 119:60 – ‘I hasten and do not delay’, I was feeling pretty good. Then I noticed the rest of the verse about keeping God’s commandments. OOPS again!

I’ll keep looking.

Ah! Though the entire chapter of Romans 12 is rich in wisdom and instruction for living the good life, the Truth I need to dwell on is this from Romans 12:11, CJB – ‘Don’t be lazy when hard work is needed, but serve the Lord with spiritual fervor.’

Enough silliness to get a giggle and enough Truth to make you think. I’ll quit for the day.

Be blessed.

Kara Beth