rae_katherine

Dear Jesus...
2004-09-25 02:02:02 (UTC)

relationship building

Back, a long time ago, people didn't work as much. Rather,
they did not work as much out of the home. Because of
that, they were able to spend more time with their
families/children (this was before television, so people
had to actually interact together). That time came and
went. It was followed by a revelution where women decided
that they were just as good as men and should work too
(this is not to say that they aren't. Women and men are
equal and women can probably do anything a man can). This
meant that there was now less time to be spent at home.
This made parents feel bad which led to them argueing.
This in turn led to more devorices which led to everyone
feeling even worse. This led to only seeing the children
and weekends and holidays. This in turn led to guilt.
People don't like guilt, so a psychologist came up with a
solution. He declared that for thousands of years people
had being raising their children wrong. He said that it
wasn't how much time you spent with your child that was
important, but how much stuff you could pack into that
time. Therefore, an afternoon spent at an amusement park
on saturday was more then equal to just hanging out
together for a week. Thus the term "quality time" was born.
Now, there was actually a point to all that. How often
to we buy into the myth of quality time? How often do
ignore someone all week but doing some exciting together on
the weekend so as to make up for it? In one of my classes,
ministry is described as 'wasting time' with some. That's
what Jesus did. He hung out with people. He would meet
some one, then go and spent time with them. We need to do
the same. Im not saying that quality time isn't good too.
Faith and i got to spend some quality time together last
night at a magic show. But quanity time is what's so
important. That i think applies to all of our
relationships. So have you spent any quanity time with
your best friend today? How about with your saviour?
makes you think, eh.




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