Did you know that in this day and age you can buy a toilet seat that closes slowly so it doesn\u2019t slam down? That\u2019s right! Instead of risking a toilet seat slam, as it\u2019s known in the trade, you can release the seat at it\u2019s apex, safe in the knowledge that 5-10 seconds later it will gently touch down without a sound. I know because I own one of these marvels of the modern world. Or I did until it broke. That\u2019s right something has happened and now my slow close toilet lid is no more than a common gravity obeying lid.<\/p>\n
The thing is I always forget that it\u2019s broken until the very second I have let it go, and as it loudly crashes into the seat I have a moment of frustration at my ever decreasing capacity to remember important things like this. This unique phenomenon doesn\u2019t affect me anywhere else, I am not a habitual toilet seat slammer. I generally assume that other people aren\u2019t as up to date in loo seat technology as I am and place their seats gently down. But my seat was designed to be dropped! It was drop proof! I had become so used to it, that now it is hard to unlearn what I had learnt! It is hard to form a new habit.<\/p>\n
As it is with my toilet so it is in life. Forming habits is hard, and is it me or are good habits much harder to form than bad ones? And although I may not have a noisy toilet seat to remind me of every time I fail to stick to a good habit, I do have my backstabbing mind to point out my every fault and failure. Surely there\u2019s a better way? A way to form good habits quickly and effectively?<\/p>\n
Matthew 11:29-30 \u2018Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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