Comfort Gets Old

August 10, 2022

I love blue jeans, don’t you? They wear well, they’re comfortable, and go with anything. Somehow I’ve ended up with seven pairs. Maybe I put them on my Christmas wish list too many times. After all, they don’t wear out.

I’m not fashionable enough to buy jeans with holes, even though I’m into holy things. My jeans are far from worn out.

As I work at home writing Christian novels, it’s now okay for me to wear blue jeans every day. When I’m not writing I’m working in the yard or on furniture restoration projects or the endless chores that come from owning a house. I’m glad for the comfort of blue jeans.

I didn’t realize comfort can get old.

Gone are the days of dressing up a little to go to the church office. I don’t have to look like ‘the preacher’ to visit friends or even to go to the post office or Dollar General. I really don’t have to make sure the jeans I’m wearing don’t have stains. Folks know I’m the kind to do chores!

Comfort gets old sometimes, so I choose times to be uncomfortable. I dress up to do grocery shopping. We dress up to go to a restaurant, even though half the patrons are in jeans. And I even wear a tie to church. You see, I can’t stand too much comfort!

Maybe you’ve heard all this before. “If you’re not living, you’re dying.” “I’d rather wear out than rust out.” “Retiring to a life of sitting around will kill you in six months.” It seems we were made to keep leaning forward.

Don’t get too comfortable. God is still working on you.