Left...Left...Left...
Ahhhh, my computer! I've been missing this thing so much, but I've been appreciating my time away from it, too. I never realized how much technology ate up my time until this weekend, where I spent time traveling, playing sports, and reading the Word a bit more than usual.
Over the course of this weekend, a friend and I traveled into Chicago for a day of walking and shopping. Needless to say, I was the less seasoned of the two shopping veterans that day, as I was shocked at some of the prices I saw (I'm sorry! If I'm going to spend 2,000 dollars, it's going to be on a house or car...probably not a jacket), but that's not where my daily (or every few days) blog thought arose from...
After hitting a few stores in the morning, my friend and I decided we'd hit up a pizza place for lunch. We were right off Michigan Avenue and there were a few restaurants in the near vicinity. We sat at a crosswalk, eyeing two or three places to eat.
[WALK] So we did. Still undecided about where to eat, we crossed that street pondering what direction we were actually heading. We stopped at the corner at which we'd just arrived and waited, still undecided.
[WALK] And so we did. We crossed the intersecting street, leaving one restaurant in our midst. Not even sure what was in this direction, we juked and jived through the mass of city-walkers to the next corner. Here we stopped once again to think....and guess what?
[WALK] ...........and we did. That's right, we took three trips, crossing two streets before we eyed California Pizza Kitchen for lunch. I can only imagine what one would have thought if they'd seen the whole situation progress. We truly looked lost! There was no sense of direction or purpose in our crossing of streets, we were just crossing streets to give ourselves something to do.
So often in life we find ourselves crossing streets with no direction. Even worse, there are many times I end up crossing a fourth street. That's right. I end up walking in a complete circle because I don't focus on where I'm supposed to be going. On Saturday, if we'd have eyed California Pizza Kitchen the entire time, we could have avoided a bunch of elbow hitting and shoulder bumping, and we wouldn't have had to cross a dangerous street (you never know) three times. We could have crossed the street once. In life, we don't have to put ourselves close to the fire time and again because we don't know where we're going. Our walk with Christ will try us, have no doubt, but if you keep playing with the fire without the need, you WILL get burned. And if you keep crossing the streets unnecessarily, you're gonna get hit by a car...it's science.
So stay focused. Get your eye lined up with God's. You don't need to know where you're gonna end up in years, just find out where He wants you today.
Proud that I finally turned right,
Bobby
Over the course of this weekend, a friend and I traveled into Chicago for a day of walking and shopping. Needless to say, I was the less seasoned of the two shopping veterans that day, as I was shocked at some of the prices I saw (I'm sorry! If I'm going to spend 2,000 dollars, it's going to be on a house or car...probably not a jacket), but that's not where my daily (or every few days) blog thought arose from...
After hitting a few stores in the morning, my friend and I decided we'd hit up a pizza place for lunch. We were right off Michigan Avenue and there were a few restaurants in the near vicinity. We sat at a crosswalk, eyeing two or three places to eat.
[WALK] So we did. Still undecided about where to eat, we crossed that street pondering what direction we were actually heading. We stopped at the corner at which we'd just arrived and waited, still undecided.
[WALK] And so we did. We crossed the intersecting street, leaving one restaurant in our midst. Not even sure what was in this direction, we juked and jived through the mass of city-walkers to the next corner. Here we stopped once again to think....and guess what?
[WALK] ...........and we did. That's right, we took three trips, crossing two streets before we eyed California Pizza Kitchen for lunch. I can only imagine what one would have thought if they'd seen the whole situation progress. We truly looked lost! There was no sense of direction or purpose in our crossing of streets, we were just crossing streets to give ourselves something to do.
So often in life we find ourselves crossing streets with no direction. Even worse, there are many times I end up crossing a fourth street. That's right. I end up walking in a complete circle because I don't focus on where I'm supposed to be going. On Saturday, if we'd have eyed California Pizza Kitchen the entire time, we could have avoided a bunch of elbow hitting and shoulder bumping, and we wouldn't have had to cross a dangerous street (you never know) three times. We could have crossed the street once. In life, we don't have to put ourselves close to the fire time and again because we don't know where we're going. Our walk with Christ will try us, have no doubt, but if you keep playing with the fire without the need, you WILL get burned. And if you keep crossing the streets unnecessarily, you're gonna get hit by a car...it's science.
So stay focused. Get your eye lined up with God's. You don't need to know where you're gonna end up in years, just find out where He wants you today.
Proud that I finally turned right,
Bobby
posted by Bobby at 6:25 AM
3 Comments:
I would just like to clarify that I was NOT happy with CPK. I wanted real Chicago Deep Dish pizza, but we couldn't FIND it anywhere. *sigh* I would also like to clarify that I did not purchase nor do I have a $2000 jacket!
But good point to the story... it's very relevant. And we didn't look THAT lost. :-)
Oh I'm sorry! I was hungry and I couldn't wait 40 minutes to put my name in to wait another 40 to be sat at a table. I'm not writing on my blog tomorrow.
I feel like I'm reading yesterday's newspaper while sipping my hot tea. Can you help?
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