Category: Busy…Dreadfully Busy

Sometimes, The Obvious Is Hard To See Because Of The Unintentional Distance We Create

We know what we should do. But it’s the doing it part that slows us down. The spirit is willing, the flesh weak. We medicate and distract ourselves with busy schedules, projects, ambitions.

Met a retired UK businessman last month at the beach. He said about retirement, “I don’t know how I ever had time for work”, saying he’s so busy with other things, like attending his son’s (14) sports.

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Dear Lord, Thank You For The Challenge Of Making Each Day Count

How motivated would you be to make each day count if you had no identity, not even a birthday, like the orphans in yesterday’s story?

Okay, so fast forward to your amazing grace. The fact that you have Internet access to read this, for example. You literally have everything, those children literally have nothing. Then how would it be possible for us to go through the next 24 hours without trying to do work that seriously matters? How?

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Most Days We Hit The Ground Running, When We Should Hit The Ground Praying

The longer we live, the more obvious our abundant blessings appear. But like certain cartoon characters, we never seem to learn. For example, Wile E. Coyote in the Looney Tunes Road Runner show.

I mean, just the other day a news story told of African orphans with no parents, and no identity – not even a birthday. Can you imagine? A twisted conspiracy by the devil to shake our faith?

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Sometimes The Effort To Enjoy Some Of Life’s Simplest Pleasures Seems Disproportionate

USA’s oldest wooden school house, St. Augustine, Florida…

Was able to join the end-of-the-school-year field trip as a junior assistant chaperone. It took 3 flights to get there.

What are the important pleasures in our lives? And how hard do we have to work for them? The only bad answer is not having one.

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