So we made it. Left Thursday at 4 pm and we were in Sarasota by 1:30 on fri. afternoon. I love vacations, we need at times to unplug and get away from the noise of our everyday lives and jobs. At our links group last week we talked about this concept and how the busyness and innundation of distractions (schedules, cellphones, email, internet, tv, people) actually can keep us from hearing God. Vacations are a forced time of unplugging from the daily things that so often consume us. Interestingly these things that often consume us are unimportant in the eternal scheme of things. I have been self evaluating how quickly I came unplugged from work and daily life (it took me till about the Angola exit on the 90) and then what consumes my mind in the meantime. The ability to live each day to the fullest in respect to how God might have us live is found in the scriptures. We are told to not worry about tomorrow. How can I live for God today? How can I be Jesus to someone today? Our obsession with the future is one of the things that hampers our living for "today". The problem is that our culture and society are consumed with the future. While watching my kids I realize that most of their living is in the moment, it is in the here and now. I don't think I have ever heard of a kid with an ulcer? A child like faith, hmmm....
2 comments:
glad you made it down there safely... we missed you at epic this week too, but i hope you and your family are having a good vacation.
you're right, it's hard not to live for tomorrow because that's how most of the world lives. worrying about things and planning out the future too much often ruins the present, but NOT planning things enough can ruin the future. CRAZY!
"Chicken Run" is one of my favorite movies! How's that for missing the point...
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