Mono-tasking
Mono-tasking Multi-tasking
The pumpkin patch in our back yard is really amazing. The blossoms are big and broad and the perfect yellow of summer.
Is it any wonder that people everywhere have enjoyed summer time. The blooms. Now in some places there are flowers all year around. There is never a time when there aren't flowers outside in the yards and on the tables.
But for others these blossoms are a seasonal thing.
We are in part more like the seasonal blossoms in our lives. There are times when we bloom big and beautiful and just take over the whole place. And there are times when we are more resting ... preparing...getting ready.
Jesus would go off by himself to a quiet place. To a place where he could think and not do. We are not a society that supports that kind of action. We'd rather be 'doing something'. There are a lot of folk who don't Go to the movies but rent them so they can be doing something while watching the movie. For many...multi-tasking can be a way of life. Always doing many things at once. Well who doesn't?
Well, perhaps that is part of the model of life lived in the hand of God that Jesus presents. That is he was always PRESENT with the people he was with, with the situation he encountered. He wasn't looking ahead to the next town, he heald the leper on the way. He wasn't so rushed in the crowd he didn't feel someone seeking his healing, he healed the woman when she had just touched his robe. All of these things point to MONO-tasking.
What is there to learn?
I'll let you know when I put the wash in the dryer and finish this report and check the mail and read a book and put the dishes in the dishwasher, and then ....
remember the saying Be Here Now
God Abide
Bobbie McGarey
@2004
The pumpkin patch in our back yard is really amazing. The blossoms are big and broad and the perfect yellow of summer.
Is it any wonder that people everywhere have enjoyed summer time. The blooms. Now in some places there are flowers all year around. There is never a time when there aren't flowers outside in the yards and on the tables.
But for others these blossoms are a seasonal thing.
We are in part more like the seasonal blossoms in our lives. There are times when we bloom big and beautiful and just take over the whole place. And there are times when we are more resting ... preparing...getting ready.
Jesus would go off by himself to a quiet place. To a place where he could think and not do. We are not a society that supports that kind of action. We'd rather be 'doing something'. There are a lot of folk who don't Go to the movies but rent them so they can be doing something while watching the movie. For many...multi-tasking can be a way of life. Always doing many things at once. Well who doesn't?
Well, perhaps that is part of the model of life lived in the hand of God that Jesus presents. That is he was always PRESENT with the people he was with, with the situation he encountered. He wasn't looking ahead to the next town, he heald the leper on the way. He wasn't so rushed in the crowd he didn't feel someone seeking his healing, he healed the woman when she had just touched his robe. All of these things point to MONO-tasking.
What is there to learn?
I'll let you know when I put the wash in the dryer and finish this report and check the mail and read a book and put the dishes in the dishwasher, and then ....
remember the saying Be Here Now
God Abide
Bobbie McGarey
@2004
posted by Bobbie Giltz McGarey at
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