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Mark 8:36
What good is it for a
man to gain the whole world, yet forget his soul?
There’s a joke that must be almost as old as Eden
All such laughter-moments usually make a point as well as tickle
your funny bone. In this case, the
object lesson is that if she was walking toward somewhere to accomplish a
particular job, then what she was doing was work. If she was just walking to enjoy the company
of Mother Nature, it was leisure. If she
was walking to work and enjoying the experience, it was attitude.
Would you make leisure a blessing rather
than a curse? Then study your attitude
toward God and the life He gave you. Study how to improve yourself. Life is too great a gift to waste
either on too much work or too much leisure.
And without the proper balance, you will very soon fall flat and hurting
upon your unsuspecting face.
A couple of weeks
ago it was reported in the newspaper and on TV that two teenagers stomped and
beat a homeless man to death. Callously
brought death to another human being without a second thought. Their reason?
They were bored. In other words, too
much leisure time and much too little sense of God and godliness.
But then, some adults find leisure time hard to fill
constructively. And when they are bored
they do all kind of things that prove they are worshiping at the altar of
senselessness. Bored? What to do with time on your hands? Binge drink.
Bored? Gamble away your hard
earned money. Bored? Try drugs.
Bored? Trade in the old house for
a new and fancier one. Bored? Trade in an old car not because the mileage
is high but because your boredom is high.
For the bored, leisure time can truly become a curse.
Whether
teenager or retired, boss or bossed, work-at-home or go-out-to-work mom or dad
- whatever is your role in life, the word leisure
constantly comes into play.
How best to beat off boredom and fill up free time in a manner that
is satisfying and fulfilling. And
therein lies a blessing or therein lies a curse. Webster’s dictionary defines leisure as
“freedom, or spare time, provided by the cessation of activities…free times as
the result of temporary exemption from work or duties…time at one’s command
that is free of engagements or responsibilities…one’s own time, at one’s
convenience…rest.”
Sounds wonderful, I think most of you would agree. Yet did you
know that the average family today never puts together more than 9 consecutive
vacation days in a year’s 365?
That
only 46% of employed adults will take five business days in a row off? That only 20% of summer trips this year will
last for seven or more consecutive nights?
“Got to get back to work you know.” 415 million vacation days will go unused this
year because workers feel they are too busy to take them, or they are afraid to
take them and be thought of as a slacker, or… you fill in the blanks. As you might well expect, someone has come up
with a name for it - VACATION DEFICIT DISORDER.
In describing children at play, Will Durant once wrote, “What
purposes move these children to their wild activity? What secret desire sustains their
energy? None; the play is the thing and
these games are their own reward.”
When is the last time you took off your shoes and wiggled them
in the mud in a sparkling stream for no other reason than it was there and you
wanted to? Can you remember when you
traded in the wild-eyed curiosity of a child for the sedate, respectable,
sometimes truncated attitudes of an adult?
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