Blogging just fits us better than FB. Like Zipidee said, we’re just not short winded enough to do Facebook well. We need grammar and punctuation. We need detail and BS.
Oh yeh, and we need jobs! Jobs, when you are employed, are vastly underrated. The attitude towards jobs in general is not good. Most employed berate the current job in favor of some wonderland vision of what could be “if only”. Truth be known, it takes talent I have no experience with to move from job to job. I have tended to latch onto my one note and ride it into oblivion. Hence the difficulty of finding another note to sing; there are so many. So many opportunities that hold promise for someone, but not necessarily for me. I have such great expectations for my one note that it cannot be just any note, it must be THE note. I demand such success and productivity, such satisfaction and lucre that not just any note can or will do. So, I sit and do not much. Waiting upon the lightning bolt that will take me away from all this and fill my life with reward and delight.
You know, a job is not supposed to do all that for us. That comes from within, from the relationships we have with real PEOPLE. The relationship we have with our God. We look for perfection where there is no perfection. We look for reward where there is no reward. We look for peace where peace is unheard of.
We have been promised life, and life everlasting. To sit at the table of the Lord and sup with Him and He with us, what more dare we ask. Too often we judge not only ourselves but all around us by how we measure up to someone else. No one of particular importance, just someone we have picked. We base our level of success on some ideal that our insecurity has chosen. We do not listen to the word that says we are His righteousness. We do not listen to the promises made to us that we will have all that we have need of. We choose to ignore the experiences in our lives that proves His faithfulness. We choose to let the voice of despair prevail and make us miserable.
I think not today! I choose to find the good in this day. I will take my afternoon with my granddaughter and find joy in it. I will enjoy my evening with my lovely wife and look forward to tomorrow with my beloved mother. I will see only the good in the people I meet. I will acknowledge only the promise of a new day. I will revel in the relationships I have with the men of the church at breakfast in the morning. I will be glad.