I was sitting with a dear friend recently who asked me over some all-you-can-eat pizza what I did when I was bored. I thought about it for a moment and then answered honestly that I am rarely bored as God offers incredible opportunity for activity in my life. That thought had never really occurred to me. I did confess that at times I felt "routine" would become a slight annoyance to my emotional well-being, my life was in a pattern from which I rarely emerged. I needed refreshment... It is at these times that I have felt "bored".
As I began to recount my stories, I noted that it was precisely at these times in my life that I searched out for things that would bring me pleasure, open my mind to new and different experiences and hunted for the very thing that would break my "routine". As a result of this boredom, I have written songs that made 1600 people dance and cry out "sing it again", oil painted in a picturesque valley to have my teacher request I share my technique with her class and afterward been photographed with each student and my new creation, learned how to dance salsa and asked to teach at a club ten lessons later, bought golf clubs and on my third time on the driving range broke 250 yards down the center, learned how to ride a motorcycle from a miami beach police officer, photographed national parks, studied tiling in hundred year old churches, and took a jeep jungle tour through the Venezuelan savanna.
Two things to consider: Would I have done any of those things without the nudge of boredom? Would I have discovered that in Christ I "can" do all things if I had not attempted to try something different?
I guess I would like to leave you with this thought... God is out to bless your life beyond what you can ask or imagine. Let the boredom that is engineered in us be the alarm clock God planted in creating us to explore beyond ourselves... take a chance... you may find that life is an amazing adventure and so much more when we walk it with God!
Blessings to you!
As I began to recount my stories, I noted that it was precisely at these times in my life that I searched out for things that would bring me pleasure, open my mind to new and different experiences and hunted for the very thing that would break my "routine". As a result of this boredom, I have written songs that made 1600 people dance and cry out "sing it again", oil painted in a picturesque valley to have my teacher request I share my technique with her class and afterward been photographed with each student and my new creation, learned how to dance salsa and asked to teach at a club ten lessons later, bought golf clubs and on my third time on the driving range broke 250 yards down the center, learned how to ride a motorcycle from a miami beach police officer, photographed national parks, studied tiling in hundred year old churches, and took a jeep jungle tour through the Venezuelan savanna.
Two things to consider: Would I have done any of those things without the nudge of boredom? Would I have discovered that in Christ I "can" do all things if I had not attempted to try something different?
I guess I would like to leave you with this thought... God is out to bless your life beyond what you can ask or imagine. Let the boredom that is engineered in us be the alarm clock God planted in creating us to explore beyond ourselves... take a chance... you may find that life is an amazing adventure and so much more when we walk it with God!
Blessings to you!
