Liquid lead flows through your veins where blood should be flowing and your mind is wrapped with a shroud covering your seemingly dead creativity. Try as you might thoughts come only through Herculean effort and through unmitigated suffering.
You have been invaded by lethargy. A monster so insidious that it can swallow life whole. No mercy and no escape, when lethargy bites its poison penetrates to the deepest recesses and paralyzes as sure as a torn spinal cord. It is cold and unfeeling and does not discriminate, all are vulnerable to its vicious bite.
Within the icy grip, lethargy can seem like prison, a pseudo depression, like a mini-ice age of the heart, freezing activity and seducing inactivity, soothing the guilt as though induced by drugs. You want to lay down and melt into the deep fabric of Swamp Couch.
As gangrene begins to envelope your heart, your very being, hope opens a most unusual avenue of escape. That hope? That hope is to grasp the guilt lethargy sets to smoother in its viperous caress. That's right, grasp the guilt hold on to it like it's your lifeline; do not let it go! Don't give in to siren song that the hag known as lethargy croons , lulling you toward oblivion.
Normally we fight tooth and nail to rid our selves of guilt. Guilt makes us feel bad and as it grows it does not allow us to rest contentedly. Ahh! Starting to see the big picture? Starting to see the answer to overcoming the beast? Lethargy wants to lull us to sleep, to give up and pool up into a soggy stupor. However, if we grab onto the guilt it can bring us to a point action.
The beauty of this plan? When we fall into the lethargy trap our activity slows to near-death and we can feel as we're floating but floating away from what we should be or would like to be doing. Guilt begins to set in as mold as our minds slow and lead flows, but the beast's venom begins to numb our guilt sense, our conscience, and we slip into the bliss of oblivion. However, if we fight the effects of the oily poison, and do something, anything, the lethargy weakens its grip and as we do the things we should be doing the guilt fades away as well.
This is not new age cosmic psycho babble but a biblical inspiration. God wants us to do our best in all things and He has provided the Holy Spirit as our Helper; God living in us! What a great gift! The Holy Spirit uses our consciences as a tool to help keep us on the straight and narrow. When we get off-target He pulls the trigger of conscience to help us to see our error. When we listen we can be free of the guilt but when we choose to ignore that still small voice we grow deeper in guilt. This is not to say that we can use guilt ourselves and overdo the guilt feelings but it is a tool God uses to help us to stay on track. When we let lethargy win we become lazy and unresponsive. God can use guilt to bring us back on track.
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