It's been a while...
The last post I made was November 2011. It's now September 2012. When I began this blog, I vowed to myself that I wouldn't let it die....... It did.
HOWEVER, I did a First Aid course last week. So I'm PULLIN' OUT THE DEFIB!
Have you noticed that no one blogs these days? It's all about short, sharp messages that get straight to the point. No one cares enough to read blogs! Which kinda makes them cooler. It's like, "I'm gonna blog regardless of the fact that no one will ever read it!!" Chances are, no one will read this. (If you do read this, I'm not being passive agressive and saying that you're no one. Bless you.) If you are reading this, you're probably getting bored about now.
I read this thing recently about the fact that our attention span is getting shorter. We register interest for about three minutes then suddenly die of boredom. I didn't get through the whole article.
Got bored.
Anyways, I wasn't conviced that we could only be stimulated for such a short amount of time. I was certain that I was above the threshold... UNTIL, one day I started looking up videos of Justin Beiber on YouTube (Guilty as charged)... It was totally for educational purposes... I was interested in seeing how his voice had changed since he (finally) went through puberty. So I watched a whole bunch of recent live videos. However, something that confounded me was the fact that when each of the videos had been playing for about 3 minutes I found myself wondering what I could type into the search box next. I thought I was better than that! Apparently not.
I tried to convince myself that if there was something I was truly interested in, I'd give it more attention. I was sure that if someone was talking to me about something important, I would listen wholeheartedly! So I watched myself. If someone was talking to me about anything, how many times did I check my phone, or look at my watch, or how many times did my mind wander to my own problems, or what I'd have for dinner or the funny thing that Jerry said last night, or the song I'd just written, or how much money is in my account, or the movie I watched earlier that day, or do they know how badly they need a breath mint, or how nice the weather is, or what I should've said to so & so in that argument, or how my feet hurt from standing too long or how I need to try the new burger at BK, or how I'm running late to be somewhere, or how I'd rather be anywhere else than here right now, or just generally caring about ME more than THEM?
I'd just like to point out that I wasn't overly thrilled with the results.
I would love to be able to say that the only things that distract me are poverty and how I can actually make a difference for other people. But that would be a lie.
We have become obsessed with the 'quick fix'. What 'satisfies' (if you're wondering, Snickers really satisfies). It's all about NOW. How am I feeling now? It's about me. Me. me. ME.
The thing is... Life is about NOW. There's no time but now.
However, there are 7 billion other people in the World.
Life should be anything but all about me.
Peace & love always
Christy
Lord, Help me to have insatiable love for You & for your people
