WRITEON FOR NOV 6
sister alies.
Indeed, frost on the pumpkin! Burr…remember when just the other day we were all complaining about how hot it was! Well, it is November. I bet y’all voted yesterday. That was so important. Maybe your candidates won…or not…what is important is doing our civic duty.
Sports fill many folk living rooms and other screens have games and TED talks. The variety we are afforded is remarkable. I have been thinking about how I spend my time. Do I spend my time on movies that teach me nothing? Or TV programs that just fill the time? When my choices border on these I have to wonder how is my neighbor served?
Nothing wrong with watching, reading, writing etc. Just saying…how do I use the time given me? Do I have at least an equivalent amount of time in prayer, or helping someone, or learning a new skill? It gets colder and like my turtle I want to hibernate. Folks get sick and schedules are radically changed. Life can and does change in a flash even if today I awoke to a ‘regular’ day.
When I don’t prepare my mind, heart and spirit I’m almost forced to live by what others tell me or by my own assumptions. Assumptions are always a bit dicey. They are different from intuition. How I spend my time might help me find the truth…in a particular situation or THE truth of the meaning of life and all the big human questions. My favorite storyteller deMello (1992) shares this about a badly made assumption:
“A couple of hunters chartered a plane to fly them into forest territory, Two weeks later the pilot came to take them back. He took a look at the animals they had shot and said: ‘This plane won’t take more than one wild buffalo.’
‘But last year the pilot let us take two in a plane this size,’ the hunters protested.
The pilot was doubtful, but finally he said, ‘If you did it last year I guess we can do it again.’
So the plane took off with 3 men and 2 buffalo. But it could not gain height and crashed into a neighboring hill. One hunter said to the other, ‘where do you think we are?’ The other inspected the surroundings and said, ‘I think about 2 miles to the left of where we crashed last year!’”
What does your learning curve look like?
BLESSINGS.
