Hello everyone!
It really is quite frustrating isn't it when you can't even get some of your friends to take you seriously enough to respond to your requests. We are all busy and have lives but at what point does "busyness" stop becoming a reason and start becoming an excuse?
This is going to be a two-part post so are your ready?
Let's take a look...
The Busyness at the End of the Line
As you know by now, I'm quite opinionated on a lot of things and that's no bad thing as far as I am concerned because it's better to know a little about a lot of things than a lot about a little.
What about when it comes to the issue of "busyness" though? What's my take on that?
Think of it like this, there are 168 hours in a week and for that week there are times that are blocked off for eating, for sleeping and for working. Let's get right to brass tacks, shall we start by asking at what point does busyness cease becoming a reason and become an excuse?
Imagine you are working all the hours you can do to pay your bills and you are faced with a dilemma that you don't have enough time to do certain things outside of this.
Start off by asking yourself what you are doing with the time that you have been given. We have all been given twenty four hours in our clock and you don't hear every single person on the whole planet complaining about how busy they are, do you?
Why?
Simple.
Some people have their priorities in a proper, coherent order as opposed to letting their calendars get filled up without their knowledge, say-so, or intention. This is where the problem starts because if you're too busy, you only think you have no time to do stuff. I can hear you now, saying that I don't know what you're talking about because you are busy and it cannot be helped...
Newsflash: It CAN!!!
You only have to sit down, for a few moments and look at your diary to see where all of your time is really going.
There are certain, fixed points and priorities which is only natural because we all need to eat, sleep and work and play, but at what point in that scale of "essentials" do you set a priority for those in your life that need you?
You might say it's not of your concern, but we are told to be caring for our brothers and sisters, both literally and metaphorically in this life from Jesus' own lips found in Mark 12:28-34: -
One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?”. “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.”.“Well said, teacher,” the man replied. “You are right in saying that God is one and there is no other but him. To love him with all your heart, with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”. When Jesus saw that he had answered wisely, he said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” And from then on no one dared ask him any more questions.
Final Thought - For Now
In loving God, a natural side effect of this comes down to wanting to love people, no matter how unlovable they may be at times. We all have our moments and I know that I can be unlovable at times, believe you me, lol!
God does not want us to be spending so much time running around getting distracted by the sections of our life that we forsake the fulfilling of His Son's own command. Go back and read that passage again.
Jesus said that the second greatest commandment was to love our fellow man, or woman just as they are, no strings attached, no pre-conceived ideas, just "love them" were His words, paraphrased per se.
The second greatest commandment.
The second greatest!
Do you see what I'm getting at?
I'm not saying that we have to be at our family and friends' every beck and call, just that by constantly telling our friends and family that we are too busy for them, we might just in fact be inadvertently breaking one of Jesus' own commands; to love our neighbour.
Are we really "too busy" to do so? Or do we need to stop and take stock of our priorities to see where honouring our fellow man & woman actually resides on the spectrum of our lives?
Sadly, we might just be dishonouring them by failing to remember that life is more than just about ourselves.
Peace... and duct-tape!
===TLP===
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