Something Different
What are you looking for?
Spring is here and soon summer will be upon us. Like the song says, 'Summer time and the living is easy...'
Robin Williams is attributed with saying:
"I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people that make you feel alone."
Most individuals have been to that spot. It may be lonely, or it can be healing. Those who are afraid of being alone—I think maybe they are afraid of who they are at their core.
That may not be the reason, but that is what I suspect. Without the ability of introspection it is easy to be shallow. Since people don't share their inner world with everyone we all appear shallow.
On mission trips we work with a set group of people for two, maybe three weeks. Much of the shallowness comes off. We learned enough things about other members for several books.
"You probably learned that from your dad," an acquaintance told me. I don't remember what the conversation had been about, but I came to a 'hmm' moment at that point.
I have shared some of my own story previously, so I didn't learn anything from my father, but she didn't know that.
We base our view point, often not on facts, but on our own story of how we think it should be. Back in my day it was normal to have a two parent household. But not everyone did.
As Young Fuzzy said, if we live in our past it becomes our future. Our past is part of who we are. It has taught us things, some of which we need to lose. It has also taught us things that can help us, keeper things.
Without time for introspection and loneliness it is easy to fall into doing the same old things, finding the same old answers.
If you are doing well, maybe that works, but if you're having Amos moments, ask yourself, 'what am I looking for?'
Doing the same old thing won't give you a new answer.
Proverbs 26:1 "As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool."
Proverbs 25:13 "As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to them that send him: for he refresheth the soul of his masters."
