Time Management

Most people I know if I want to or need to I can call a home phone, a cell phone, face book them, email at home, email at work, see them in class, see them in church, text them, leave a in game message, or if in worst case scenario just go knock on their door. That's staggering to me because we are so tightly "connected" but most of us feel disconnected from people most of the time.

It occurred to me how arrogant I am today and self centered I am on how my "life" is in shambles. Historically it isn't. I am away from my children and that sucks but if I lived just a hundred years ago it wouldn't be uncommon for separation. Until the industrial revolution people had to go out of the house to work. Be it months away on a sailing ship or camping in the fields to get them plowed. You just couldn't pick up your cell to say hi. It was more about the quality of the time versus the quantity we spent with each other.

You had to clear the entire day to go visit someone because it was a ways off to get anywhere to see someone else. Community meant something deeper I think back then because neighbors helped neighbors at the drop of the hat because they were literally the only other people around for miles and miles.We live closer to each other than ever before but who knows their neighbors anymore?

With medical advances we are living longer than ever before as a people. We should be cool as cucumbers when things crash into each other because our chances are likely by the time we die it has the distinct possibility to work itself out before we die. Back in the day they should of been freaking out if they fought with their wife because they were one rusty nail away from the hereafter.

¹ There is a time for everything,
   and a season for every activity under the heavens:  ² a time to be born and a time to die,
   a time to plant and a time to uproot,
 ³ a time to kill and a time to heal,
   a time to tear down and a time to build,
 ⁴ a time to weep and a time to laugh,
   a time to mourn and a time to dance,
 ⁵ a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
   a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
 ⁶ a time to search and a time to give up,
   a time to keep and a time to throw away,
 ⁷ a time to tear and a time to mend,
   a time to be silent and a time to speak,
 ⁸ a time to love and a time to hate,
   a time for war and a time for peace.
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

God is working in my life, as he has and will ,on his own timetable. No matter how much faster it becomes possible to rely the answers He gives he doesn't move a smidge faster than he wants to. Google can give answers in microseconds but they don't nourish the soul. It is doubt that we give power to when we grow impatient with God. Faith is strengthen like any other muscle only when it is put into use.

I used to ride my bike all over the places literally dozens of miles a day. I got on a bike the other day and within the short distance to work i was wondering about cardiac care. I fell asleep troubled wrestling with issues humming The Clash's immortal song of my youth "Should I stay or should I go".  But when I woke up I was putting my necklace on as part of the whole armor of God thing. technically i know its not listed but I add it in their like a World of Warcraft trinket not necessary but helpful. I have a dog tag I got as a gift with Isaiah 40:31 but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint. Nothing I hadn't heard but so desperately need to be reminded of today.