Island Time-Where Are We Going So Fast?

How is your schedule today?  Are you off to a meeting or rushing to the grocery store while speed reading your emails and listening to voice mails?

We live in a world that is “speed up to slow down and hurry up and wait.” I just rushed to the airport to then wait for my flight that boarded on time (I did have plenty time to spare given that I rushed to the airport, and then we “waited for 2 hours on the tarmac.  Ever thing about what you are preparing for?  In this hurry up to slow down world with the technology to never be away from anything, what is our real purpose?  Are we that busy that we can’t really slow down to ponder what we are really put on this earth for?

I recently vacationed on an island in the carribeean with my wife and some family members where you kind of had to slow down.  At first, this was hard.  Having to go with the flow and the time scheduled of the locals, etc.  Why are we moving so slow?  Why does it take so long for dinner to be served at the local restaurant?  Well, we are on Island Time.  

Have you encountered this phenomenon of rush, rush, rush to then feel like “what did I do that for?”  We live in a society where we are in a frantic mode much of our waking hours. We have places to go, people to see, things to do–ALL THE TIME!  From a biblical perspective, Jesus was “about his Father’s Buisiness all the time.  However, he found time to get away from the hustle and bustle of His Plan and to go by the sea or up into the mountains to pray and be with his Father.  We need this special quite time away from everything to listen to the quiet and to ponder what we are all about and what our real purpose is.  Pray for your family.  Pray for God to work in your life.  Pray for God to put His plan at your footsteps and lead you in the direction that He wants you to go.