More Time On Our Hands

If you are like most, you do a lot of reflecting around this time of year. More so now with the pandemic. It could also be because we have a bit of a quiet time between Christmas & New Year's coming up. By reflection I mean we start to think about where we have been in the last year and the uncertainty of the year that is about to begin. I guess, I'm starting sooner due to the new normal we are getting too used to as this new way of life settles down around us.

What have you been reflecting about lately about these past ten months? Of course we think about what we have been through and the freedoms we think we have lost. Most of this seems to be a negative. Most of it revolves around something we have no control over. If you are a sure minded person, you may have felt a little at ease as something takes over much of what we knew as our being in control of our lives.

I'm a mostly positive person so I started thing not about what we have lost but what we have found, or gained. First of all, if you are reading this, you have not personally been affected physically by what is going on. Our abilities of doing our own thing has been cropped short and we follow new guidelines that keep us well and safe. Isn't being safe and well our primary goal at this time?

But there are more positives. Many of us have accepted a slower pace of living and we started to see things we haven't seen before or gone back to those things we had pushed to the side because life was too full. And maybe God thought we were too focused on climbing ladders then looking up to Him. Now we can. We no longer are caught up in going and doing. We are at a life altering, pivotal junction, now that we slowed down, where our focus is now on what is important.

More and more I find, and I hope you found it as well; I want to connect with people again. I want to put down what I'm doing and just talk with others. I want to hear their hearts and I at times want to share my heart. I want to stop doing 'things' and just 'be' what God intended us to 'be' and that is, we are HUMAN 'BE'INGS. Many of us have forgotten what that means and entails. When you get there, you will be amazed that you see a change - in yourself. We talk about the past and about the future, we talk about what we will want to do tomorrow instead of saying what we will do when we win the lottery, which we never will.

Lastly, as we reflect about the past present and future, we will have time to think about God. He has always been there for us. We may have forgotten that; but one thing I know, we just need to call His name and He is right there ready to listen and also ready to perform miracles in our lives. He is in our present. Maybe the biggest miracle is, we have time again for Him because He has always had time for us.

Something to think about

Rob