lifestyle

Most of my time is spent with people.

Sometimes it's planned, sometimes it's anything but. People call by unannounced. I meet folk out in the street. Things crop up and the whole day gets turned inside out.

It's right that it's like that, of course. I mean, that most of my time's spent with people.

But it does mean there are most days a hundred and one other things which are always being put on hold. A list of tasks which need to be done, and ... well, where will I find the time that I need to be doing them all?

Letters, preparation (there's a lot of that this week with two funeral services also requiring attention on top of everything else), planning, reports, references ... The list goes on and on!

When I met with Douglas at lunch today I asked him a simple question - what complicates your life?

Meaning by that, I suppose - what keeps you from simplicity in how your life is lived?

It's been much on my heart this past little while. And it's plainly much on his heart, too. We talked and, then prayed, at some length about that. And we'll doubtless return to it, too. When, and if, we ever find the time, of course!

Why are our lives so often hugely complicated things? Where has the lifestyle of Jesus got lost? And how can that lifestyle be found by us all once again?